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Verizon Gives You Easy Way to Block Email-to-Text Spam

Kellen August 29, 2023 3

In the world of spammers, there is an abused method of texting you called email-to-text that takes your phone number, converts it into an email address, and then lets someone send a message to that email which is then turned into text. According to Verizon,...

Google Voice Starts Labeling Spam Calls

Kellen December 30, 2022 5

Google Voice is one of those services from Google that you never quite stop worrying about. It's a Google product that is incredibly important to so many of us, yet Google often neglects it for lengthy periods of time, leaving us wondering if it is on the...

Verizon Text From Your Own Number is a Scam

Kellen March 29, 2022 16

Verizon folks noticed over the past several days that they had received a text message from themselves and that's probably not a normal thing. That text message presented itself as sort of a "Good job, buddy!" with a supposed reward for paying their bill on...

Verizon’s New Spam Call Filter is Your New Best Friend

Kellen July 12, 2021 17

In recent years, as the number of spam and robocalls have flooded my phone lines, I started to notice a pattern. Many of them showed up with an area code and middle 3-digits that matched my own phone number. It was obvious that this was a trick to get you...

AT&T Starts Validating Calls to Help Combat Robocalls

Kellen December 18, 2019

AT&T is now validating calls on select Android phones to fight back against robocallers who spoof numbers. This new validation is a part of the AT&T Call Protect service and will be added at no cost. Using the STIR/SHAKEN technology, AT&T is...

Verizon to Begin Auto-Enrolling Android Phones in Their Robocall Blocking Service

Kellen August 27, 2019

Verizon's Call Filter service is coming to your Android phone as early as today. Even if you haven't manually signed-up or installed the Call Filter app, there is a chance that Big Red will now auto-enroll you. Here's what that means. Verizon Call Filter is a...

AT&T, T-Mobile Partner to Combat Lame A** Robocalls

Tim August 14, 2019

AT&T and T-Mobile are partnering to deliver cross-network robocall protection built on SHAKEN/STIR standards, providing verification to customers that the call they’re getting is from an actual person and not a robocaller or scammer. For background, STIR/...

AT&T is Adding Automatic Fraud Call Blocking to Customers Accounts

Kellen July 9, 2019

AT&T announced today that they plan to add automatic fraud call blocking and suspected spam-call alerts to their customers' accounts. New AT&T customers will have the feature automatically added to their new accounts, while "millions" of current...