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Reduce spam calls on the iPhone

Reduce spam calls on the iPhone

- [Garrick] Hi, I'm Garrick Chow, and this is Monday Productivity Pointers. If you're like most people these days, you've probably felt like there's been a surge in the amount of junk or spam phone calls you've been receiving. These irritating calls frequently interrupt your day, disrupting things you're trying to get done, and the spammers use tricks like making the first six numbers match your local area code and the first three numbers of your own phone number to try to increase the chance that you'll pick up. Now, you might've tried things like blocking individual numbers as they call in, but you've probably realized that these spammers can and do change the numbers they use all the time. Block one number and you'll get calls from other numbers. There's no way one person can keep up with all the numbers being used by spammers. So if you're being bombarded by unwanted calls, another thing you can try is installing a third party app to monitor calls and prevent spam calls from…

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