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Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by drewg123 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:22PM (#16869127)
Me too. The vast majority of my spam calls are on the local exchange for my phone's native number. I use Google Voice on a Pixel2, so nobody should even be using the native number. I've often wished for a way to either:

Block any call for the native, non Google Voice number or Block any call claiming to originate from any number in the native number's local prefix. Eg, 604-233-

I haven't found a call blocker that can do this, but it has been a while since I looked.

Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by terrik on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:07PM (#16871671)
For those on iOS, you can block wildcard number ranges like this with Number Shield[0].

I have been receiving alot of these spoofed neighbor number calls, and this app saves me a lot of time and stress. You can also prevent it from blocking contacts that fall into your blocked number range.

0: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/number-shield/id1319082167?m...

Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by ghaff on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:26PM (#16869163)
Most of the junk calls to my cell phone follow this formula. There doesn't seem to be anything to block the whole exchange. I'd be happy to do it. I don't actually live in the same city as my cell number so the odds that I'd be blocking someone who needed to reach me is pretty small.
Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by gnopgnip on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:32PM (#16869209)
Hiya on android will allow you to block numbers that start with a prefix, so you could block all calls that start with 604-233 604-232 and 604-234
Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by Abundnce10 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:43PM (#16869309)
But will it allow me to block all calls from 604-232 and 604-234 that are not in my contacts? Because I've noticed a similar trend where I get calls from numbers that begin with the same 6 numbers as my phone number.. but I have friends and family with phone numbers similar to mine and I don't want them blocked. Just ones not in my contacts list.

Edit: I read a review of Hiya and it sounds like they're still missing what we're all looking for: "Two things are missing. First, the ability to block all calls not in contacts. I have to download a separate app for that. Second, on inbound calls from the same area code (i.e., spoofed numbers) it does not pre-screen the call."