{"id":34301,"date":"2019-09-13T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34301"},"modified":"2019-09-09T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:34:20","slug":"nophonespam-app-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/nophonespam-app-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"NoPhoneSpam App for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"https:\/\/f-droid.org\/en\/packages\/at.bitfire.nophonespam\/\">NoPhoneSpam<\/a> for a couple of years. The Android app enables you to set up certain rules to automatically hang up\/ignore\/silence\/obscure calls such as those from robo-callers and spam\/scams\/spoofed numbers. It does this based on filters you create.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer get robocalls, or at least, they never make it through to bother me. Now I know that when my phone rings it&#8217;s almost always a legit caller.<\/p>\n<p>Some cell carriers in the US have some level of spam prevention but robo callers are so numerous and prevalent that they still can circumvent these carrier-side filters. This means we have to do it ourselves and which of your readers in not a DIY&#8217;er? I have, for example, a rule set up in this simple app to disallow calls from anyone with the same prefix. That&#8217;s a common number spoofing tactic to get you to pick up. Scammers call you from a spoofed number that similar to yours: same area code and prefix. <\/p>\n<p>The app is available from the alternative app repository <a href=\"http:\/\/fdroid.org\/\">fdroid.org<\/a> (another cool tool in and of itself! But I&#8217;ll save that for a future submission).<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Block calls from annoying or private numbers on your Android device<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34303,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34301\/revisions\/34303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}