topic Re: Spam / scam calls in Get Support

Spam / scam calls

grantc — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:46:23 GMT

How many people will be happy at the end of the Sept when phase 2 of CRTC anti spam measures are required for mobile providers?

Perhaps my social will be less compromised after the end of the month 😉 🙄

Then again perhaps pm is outside the CRTC rules since I still get calls from 15 digit numbers, which was suppose to stop a year ago?

Re: Spam / scam calls

gblackma — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 22:16:12 GMT

@grantc if your phone is an android one add a Google account to it. They have a pretty good spam blocker now. Stay safe.

Re: Spam / scam calls

iliketotalk — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 22:17:30 GMT

@grantc wrote:
How many people will be happy at the end of the Sept when phase 2 of CRTC anti spam measures are required for mobile providers?
Perhaps my social will be less compromised after the end of the month 😉 🙄
Then again perhaps pm is outside the CRTC rules since I still get calls from 15 digit numbers, which was suppose to stop a year ago?

@grantc hi Public is bound by all the same rules as are all the other providers

Re: Spam / scam calls

adastorm — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 22:51:52 GMT

If you are tired of spam, turn of accepting calls from unknown callers, or if you have a pixel, use call screening to filter out the spam.

Re: Spam / scam calls

will13am — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 23:18:40 GMT

I don't see anything coming from the CRTC as providing any kind of silver bullet. The thing is the perpetrators don't care about the law and many operate from outside of the country. Since spam is their business, they will find ways to keep the business going.

Re: Spam / scam calls

grantc — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:13:47 GMT

It is true the bad guys don't care and they will find new ways to annoy people, but the upcoming requirement to block spoofed calls, that should reduce the volume of spam/scam calls.