Tired of anonymous calls, hidden calls, calls from abroad, numbers that harass you on a daily basis? We have a few surefire ways to get rid of them.

Sometimes we receive unsolicited messages on our smartphone. Your number may end up in the wrong place for a variety of reasons. It could be a friend playing a joke on you. Or you played a contest to win a PS4 and since then your number has been sold to all video game sales companies. In short, we must react!

Decline the call

The first solution is to refuse anonymous calls. Operators offer this functionality in different forms. They are also activated in different ways, see the following pages:

Switch to messaging

The second solution, in the event of repeated calls from the same unmasked number, is to automatically switch the caller to messaging. To do this, go to the call list of your smartphone. Then select the number you want to blacklist:

Then in the options, select Add to blacklist:

Deindex

The third and last solution is preventive. It is a question of registering your number on Bloctel which defines itself as: “the list of opposition to cold calling, free for consumers”. Companies carrying out canvassing by telephone are required to consult this list before they send out and to withdraw the numbers listed there. Not all do, but it still helps to limit unsolicited calls.

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