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by afo 2955 days ago
We (Nomorobo) protect you from both neighbor spoofing as well as "standard" robocalls. We add over 1,300+ new robocaller numbers every day. It's pretty crazy out there.
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I used Nomorobo for 6 months and it was NOT useful, i have a phone number from a area code + prefix that i dont live at, yet I get about 5-10calls/day from similar looking numbers. Nomorobo would mark them as ‘unblockable’ because of the areacode+prefix match, so i would have to manually block each one.

I switched to ATT Call Protect which works much better. Now i get 1-2 calls/week. I would go back to nomorobo if it worked better.

We updated the app based on that feedback.

We used to show "unblockable" because there was a problem with false positives. Lots of families had sequential numbers that were accidentally getting blocked.

Now, if you give us access to your contacts (local processing only, never transmitted to our servers) we can completely block them.

I’ll give it another go. Thanks for the info.