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Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by runako on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:37PM (#22213429)
Same thought here. I have been toying with the idea of building something OSS so that people could run it themselves, for this reason.

(Also I have what is possibly a common filtering case in the US that would eliminate 95% of my spam calls without blocking any relevant calls from "new" numbers. And for whatever reason, I have not seen it implemented anywhere yet.)

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by joshmn on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:05PM (#22213562)
> Same thought here. I have been toying with the idea of building something OSS so that people could run it themselves, for this reason.

I'm in the process of open-sourcing the core part of a SaaS I run that does exactly this. It relies on Twilio but could be easily made to work with any API that exposes the forwarded number, which should be all of them.

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by runako on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:07PM (#22213575)
Would love to sign up to get notified when this is ready!

Good luck!

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by nlh on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:50PM (#22213491)
IF (area code == my area code) AND (prefix == my prefix) AND (last 4 != my last 4) THEN SPAM SPAM SPAM ?
Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by runako on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:06PM (#22213573)
YES

Also: if (area code == my area code) AND (number NOT IN whitelist)

Basically: I have a mobile number in an area I left 15 years ago. Any call I get from there that's not one of my friends is de facto spam.

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by Terretta on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:33PM (#22214975)
You may be looking for Hiya Spam Call Blocker:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hiya-spam-phone-call-blocker/i...

This supports area code and local prefixes (but not wildcard local prefix). Unlike Trucaller etc., the privacy policy is ok.

If you want to block all prefixes, see WideProtect above.

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by SandyAndyPerth on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:32AM (#22221929)
>I have a mobile number in an area

Wow, that's fascinating to find out that is how the US works.

Australian mobile numbers and I'm pretty sure most of the European ones, are prefixed by carrier and have no geographical breakdown.

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by runako on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:37PM (#22228726)
Yup, the first 3 digits (the area code) tell you the the part of the country where the number is located. Obviously this was setup before mobile!

> prefixed by carrier and have no geographical breakdown.

I'm not sure how/if that would work here given the active mergers & acquisitions in telecom. (Among other things, some of these require some customers to be divested to achieve approval of the deal.)

Additionally, we actually had Congress pass a law requiring the ability for consumers to take their number to other carriers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#...

Prior to this, carriers could use as leverage the fact that people prefer not to change their phone number.

Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by prashnts on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:05PM (#22214883)
I wonder how long before AdTech uses location data change which robo-call center to choose from its aws equivalent in your area code.
Re:Show HN: CallStop – Superhuman for your phone number by Terretta on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:30PM (#22214965)
You may be looking for ‘WideProtect Spam Call Blocker’:

For iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wideprotect-spam-call-blocker/...

If only one or a few prefixes need match, use Hiya below. If you want all wildcard prefixes, you want WideProtect.

Most do not support the wildcard formula, this does.