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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by tsmccull:

I kept getting calls from spoofed numbers that either began with my IPhone’s prefix . . .

If you make a new contact (call it spam1 or whatever you want), you can then add a phone number to that contact with wildcard characters (*) for some of the digits. Then just block that phone number that has the asterisks in it and no more calls from the troublesome prefix or prefixes . . . it works with IOS.

Probably half of the junk calls that I get show caller ID with the same first six digits as my iPhone number, so when I saw your post I thought "What a GREAT idea!"

I started to do this, then had an "Oh, shit" moment when I realized that my wife's phone number is the same as mine, except for the last digit. Hers ends in 7, mine ends with an 8. If I use your method I would be blocking calls from her.

Wait, maybe . . .

You have an interesting conundrum, or maybe it’s an opportunity but that’s not my place to say! You could try an experiment which would be the following. Enter 10 contacts with wildcard characters in the 6 most significant digits corresponding to your phone number but leave the LSD alone. Block nine of them except the one ending in “7”. She should still be able to call you, but you’ve eliminated 90% of the spammer’s options since they can now only get thru if their spoofed CID ends in an 7. Not a perfect solution but it might eliminate some of the spam. Not sure it’ll work, but your wife’s phone would at least let you test it out.