[hikingsimulator]

Lucky you. I usually get one or two spam calls a day in Europe (France/Germany) but they are marked as spam.

Bless the people keeping that red list up to date.

This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up when receiving text or calls.

[hnuser847]

> This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up when receiving text or calls.

We do have that, but it probably depends on the carrier and the type of phone you have. On my iPhone with Verizon, there's a setting to "Silence Junk Callers", in which "calls identified by Verizon as potential spam or fraud will be silenced, automatically sent to voicemail, and displayed on the Recents list."

It's not perfect, though, and I still get a ton of spam calls. As a rule I almost never answer the phone if I don't recognize the number.

[supertrope]

Spam filtering for phone calls is in its infancy. Only 20% of calls are signed https://transnexus.com/blog/2022/shaken-statistics-november/. Some robocalls are signed. Many legitimate calls are blocked. I ignore all unknown callers.

[jjtheblunt]

we do have that info (perhaps presentation of such depends on phone software of course).

almost all my inbound calls are spam, in the united states. when i've listened to voicemails left, they even have native north american accented people reading the prerecorded scripts, so there's deep roots to the depravity that cross country borders.

[ghaff]

>if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up

Sometimes but not consistently.

Though honestly in the US I get maybe one SPAM call or text a week these days.

[rootusrootus]

> This thread makes me wonder if Americans have such info (whether a call is a likely spam) automatically pop up when receiving text or calls.

Yes, of course we do. Verizon and T-Mobile, at the very least, mark calls as "likely spam" reliably. Can't speak for any carriers as I've not been a customer of theirs for some time.

[karmelapple]

I wouldn’t say “of course” for a few reasons:

1. It was introduced only within the last couple of years, even though spam calls have been happening for much longer than that 2. A bunch of calls escape the “spam likely” designation even though I’m on one of the major carriers

So I’d say although we have it, it’s not nearly as reliable as I’d expect it to be.