Mrs V has an infection of Project Solar calls on her Phone. It's caused by a surge of calls from multiple UK areas seemingly from Auto call centres as phone rings, then there's silence . It's got to be auto generated, as most "normal " humans ( saying that, these folk are not human or normal,) as thy'd realise that after a short time their pattern is obvious and folks will just ignore these calls.

Most call blockers for mobiles work on accepting number, comparing it to data in phone/app and then rejecting call. In the meantime, phone does ring once. I've set her phone to reject calls not in address book, but what I really/really want is an app that delays ringing, till CLI checked against address book, and if not in address book, call gets terminated.

Any suggestions.

I have "calls blacklist" on mine. When I used it I added each unknown caller to it when they happened and it blocks them thereafter. Blocks calls and SMS separately.

 

 

Edited 12 April, 20188 yr by camelspyyder

Found one. It's inside an app called HIYA. There's another option to screen ( default) or block & send to VM .And on looking further-a few other options to ditch the call. .

True caller is very good and blocks silently. 

 

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Thanks, gman- I've got it on my Windows phone. At moment trying HIYA, but we're in middle of a SIM renumber, and Swimbo's SIM is in an old phone, with a 5 SEC default to VM. Today, only three calls from the usual suspects.

Problem seems that "project solar" seem to have found a way round the TPS system. Make these calls from a set of phone numbers. ( Almost looks like a franchise setup). Like an attack from an octopus ( being cynical) in that if one leg is detached, then there's several others to take over.

7 hours ago, VWD said:

Thanks, gman- I've got it on my Windows phone. At moment trying HIYA, but we're in middle of a SIM renumber, and Swimbo's SIM is in an old phone, with a 5 SEC default to VM. Today, only three calls from the usual suspects.

Problem seems that "project solar" seem to have found a way round the TPS system. Make these calls from a set of phone numbers. ( Almost looks like a franchise setup). Like an attack from an octopus ( being cynical) in that if one leg is detached, then there's several others to take over.

TPS is pretty worthless. There's plenty of ways around it to make these spam calls 'legal'. You put too much faith in it. 

 

You can increase the voicemail timeout as 5 seconds is far too low. 

 

Blocking the numbers not in contacts is also pretty ineffective and risks the potential of not being reached in an emergency. 

This lot seem to have found a way round the old toothless TPS dog. No number calls more than once per day, but there could be up to ten of these. I've no faith in TPS.BUT if I do answer one of these calls, something that makes callers sit up is that the caller is personally responsible for ensuring that the number is not on the TPS list, and that the penalties apply to them personally as an individual, not as an employee. 

The 5 sec timeout is to let us know that we've received a call , as there's no way to black list calls on this ancient mobile. Once the number is ported to her new mobile, then calls not in the address book will be sent to voicemail. Most cold callers hang up at this point. In an emergency, a reasonable person would be expected to leave a message.