Spam number block requests post here

[jim_ohara]

Please block
213-588-8995
877-820-8042
707-663-2507
707-225-0462
209-646-0054
213-722-2330
707-355-3986
279-217-8679
559-279-1810
559-551-3139
559-594-3590
707-232-8358
707-406-6104
707-306-3207
559-780-8671
707-348-7584
619-320-1256
707-210-1613
707-329-2839
415-873-1803
559-476-5589
707-379-3339
thank you

[roboblock]

Spam call re "listings" from:

415-728-9077

CID shows "San Francisco"

[whorfin]

Sonic has long offered a "block Anonymous callers" feature, a handy little thing one can activate in the Voice control panel

Spammers, scammers and fraudsters long ago figured this out. It seems to be fashionable now to set the callerid name to a city and state. A call from "Berkeley, CA", "Hayward, CA", "Los Angeles, CA" - always a fraud in my experience.

So it would be excellent to be able to block these as well.

Going further out on a limb, most times i've done a reverse-number lookup with a more full-featured service, I see that the scams come from a handful of shady multiply-sanctioned, fined by the FTC but still in business virtual Telcos who seem to specialize in hosting call centers and robodialers. Wouldn't it be cool if we, the customers, could "defederate" ourselves from these mofos? In order to do that, we'd need to be able to know that information, which surely the Sonic backend knows. Make it a block option; we need more affirmative consent in our communications systems.