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Goodbye spam: this is what you need to do on Android and iPhone to stop getting spam calls
Get rid of spam calls on your phone without paying anything.
On June 29, 2023, new regulations began to be applied to certain European territories that prohibit commercial calls without the prior consent of the recipient. This type of call, also known as robo-calls or simply “spam”, is usually carried out by telecommunications companies that perform marketing campaigns. where the potential client usually ends up hanging up, annoyed by the reason for the call or by the insistence of the operators. In some cases, they can be repeated several times on the same day.
However, recent changes in European Law have prohibited this kind of call, with fines of upwards of 100,000 Euros per event. While this is not the case in North America, there are steps you can take to ease that annoyance.
At the same time, today we no longer only receive this type of call from companies but also cybercriminals opt for this fraud option. Every time we receive a call from an unknown number we must take extreme precautions and a simple solution that can take away a lot of headaches is to set your phone number to private. In this way, when making or receiving calls, no information about the phone number’s line or its owner will be shown..
Follow these steps on Android to stop receiving scam calls
- Open the ‘Telephone’ or ‘Calls’ app
- Click on the three vertical dots to enter ‘Settings’
- Once inside ‘Settings’ select the ‘Additional services’ option
- Among the options choose ‘Show caller ID’ or ‘Caller ID and spam protection” and deactivate it
Follow these steps on iPhone to stop receiving scam calls
- Open the ‘Settings’ application
- Select the ‘Phone’ option
- Find ‘Show Caller ID’ and turn it off
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