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by user_rob 3393 days ago
You can use last number barring to block their calls. My best attempt at wasting their time was 28 minutes - normally would not bother but I was ill and needed something to distract me.
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They spoof caller ID data. I rarely if ever receive a same-number spam call. If they wanted to make my phone number unusable, they could.
Android nowadays marks calls as "suspected spam", worked great. In general, if it's important enough, the caller leaves a message. Otherwise, it's not important and I don't care about it.
That's great, and iOS now has a similar feature.

It has zero effectiveness if someone decides to send a hundred thousand spoofed VoIP calls at you because you lost them their spammer/malware job by stringing them along.

There's no way for them to do that for free -- VoIP calls to PSTN still cost money.