Back in the November newsletter, I told you about a service that would block unwanted calls to your home phone with NoMoRobo. As more people are doing away with home phone numbers and using their cell phones exclusively, I’d like to tell you about a service that blocks unwanted calls to your cell phone.
Truecaller is an app that you install on your phone and once you set it as the default dialer, it screens all incoming calls and tells you if it’s a spam call or not. If it is an unwanted number, you can block it through the app so if that number tries calling again, it’ll be blocked. If you happen to miss a call and don’t recognize the number, you can do a search of that number and see if it’s spam or not, saving you a call-back. Truecaller collects its data through their partnerships with various phone directories, social networks and the Truecaller users.
Truecaller also has an app called TrueMessenger that will keep spam messages out of your SMS inbox and will easily identify unknown senders. You can set your own rules to block spam or let the Truecaller community start you off.
The Truecaller app is available for both Apple and Android phones while the TrueMessenger app is only available for Android. I’ve been using Truecaller for quite a while and highly recommend it.
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