Android

If the pixel 5 supports it, absolutely turn on assistant call screening. If a number is slightly suspected of being a spam call, it will send it to Google assistant who asks them who they are and why they're calling. This filters nearly all spam calls in my experience, while not preventing you from getting legitimate calls.

Even better, after using it a while I no longer get many spam calls, maybe 1-2 a week that gets quietly handled in the background.

As soon as i finish buying my house im very seriously considering whitelisting my calls.

Same here. It's always the same Medicare scam. And I just watched that special John Oliver did about human traffickers forcing people to work in their scam factories, so I wonder if it's part of that.

I got so tired of them that I actually answered one a few weeks ago. I was shocked that an actual person answered.

I asked to be taken off and she was very nice and they actually did it.

Haven't received one since.

Carrion?

yall actually use the call function?

Why?

This totally blocks all scam calls for me:

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lucky.silence/

You have the Pixel, use your assistant on the calls. It's good at screening them and they give up when they hit a robot talking to them.

You could try talking to your phone company about it. My wife had a problem where someone was spoofing her number to make the spam calls. So she'd get call backs from old ladies asking her who she is and what she wanted. But T-mobile shut down her number for like 24 hours, which was inconvenient for a day, but when it came back on the problem was resolved.

Who is your provider? If they have an online toggle for more spam detection/blocking, turn that on. Alternatively you could move to another provider who does a better job at handling spam calls.

T Mobile has an app called Scam Shield that seems to do a better job than Google. If a call is identified as a scam, your phone won't ring. You can report ones that get through. I installed this a few days ago, and it's much more manageable now. I get something like 20 scam calls a day. This kept 15 or so from ringing.

I have started asking callers various disheartening questions, like "Is this what you planned for in life?", "Does your family laugh at you?", "Do your friends have better jobs than yours?", "Are you an embarrassment to your parents?". Most hang up, but a good number get upset - I imagine because their parents really are embarrassed by them. One person, whom I asked if he was happy with his choices in life, said "I am in hell". My hope with these questions is for them to rethink a life of trying to cheat old people out of money.