Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M
by acdha on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:08PM
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T-Mobile offers it as a free option with two levels: labeling the call as Scam Likely and blocking it outright. The latter is quite effective - I was getting 5+ calls per day and it’s now 1-2 per week.
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The “Spam Likely” determination is fairly unreliable, IMO. They have labeled my doctors office “Scam Likely”, while many “Scam definitely” calls have not been labeled.
Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M
by StudentStuff on Friday May 11, 2018 @04:00PM
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T-Mobile's handling of "Scam Likely" seems to be spotty at best, with quite a few false positives. Additionally, their 3rd party vendor seems to be wanting to audit businesses that are mis-identified: https://feedback.fosrvt.com/
I haven’t had a single false positive. I get 1-2 false negatives per week but haven’t found an iOS call blocker which had comparable or better accuracy.
That’ll probably require fixing the broken design of the telephone system.
Is it perhaps because scammers have impersonated your doctor's phone number?
Interesting. I assumed that Scam Likely was a Google feature, not T-Mobile.
That's T-Mobile? I thought it was Google Voice.
Definitely TMO - it's on the billing statement (free line item).
Re:FCC fines robocaller record $120M
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:13PM
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Only for postpaid accounts. T-mobile treats its prepaid customers like garbage. They even refuse to register correct callerID info for numbers they assigned in violation of E911 requirements.