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It's almost remarkable that, no matter how fancy our phones get, telemarketers, phone bots, and scam calls are still an enduring grievance of modern life. Just having an active phone number invites ...

Feeling buried under a flood of unwanted calls and texts on your iPhone? Sadly, you aren't alone, as spam calls and texts are on the rise from anyone from eager local businesses to politicians asking ...

Find out if it's possible to block spam calls for good. Just when we thought phone calls were a dying breed, scammers made it clear they had other ideas. Suddenly, our cell phones started ringing off ...

Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream ...

It's something that's happened to us all: we reach for our phone to answer a call only to see the words "scam likely" on the screen. As more people move to messaging as their primary means of keeping ...

Here are all the details on how to block a number on iPhone. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Spam calls and text messages seem absolutely relentless these days — you’ll want to know how to block a ...

On an Android phone, you can disable all potential spam messages from Google's Messages app. Tap the profile icon in the upper right of the app and select Messages Settings > Spam protection. Turn on ...

Text messages that come to your phone as spam messages are a nuisance at best and a risk to your personal security at worst. But somewhere in between lies a unique type of spam text message that ...

When you receive a text message from an unknown number on a Samsung phone, you can tap the Block number notification at the top of the screen in the Messages app. To use Hiya to identify spam and scam ...

If you receive unwanted calls to your phone number on an iPhone, texts or iMessages in the Messages app, or unwanted incoming calls in FaceTime, you can block them by phone number or email address.

In a recent article, we provided a comprehensive guide on how to block Android Phone calls labelled as ‘No Caller ID‘ from reaching you on your iPhone. Understanding that many of our readers also use ...