[ale] OT: blocking phone numbers

Bob Toxen transam at VerySecureLinux.com
Thu Aug 26 09:50:53 EDT 2021


Actually my exchange is only cell phones that existed 25 years
ago and don't include any of my friends so I'd be happy to
block the whole exchange if I could.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:09:46AM -0400, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> You probably do not want to do that, because the scammers are choosing a
> number that is your area code + exchange, so blocking that would block many
> legit numbers.  I routinely see numbers that match my AC+EX with different
> last 4 digits
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:59 AM Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> > I've had the same problem for YEARS.  Same prefix as my phone.
> >
> > AT&T.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:46:53AM -0400, Calvin Harrigan via Ale wrote:
> > > On 8/25/2021 10:39, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> > > >Lately I've been getting phone calls with good deals on Medicare :)
> > > >
> > > >Seems to come from phone numbers with different last 4 digits.
> > > >
> > > >How can I block entire "subnet" of phone numbers.
> > > >
> > > >Android.
> > > >
> > > >
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