We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Verizon’s Call Filter has surpassed 20 billion spam calls blocked. That’s a lot of expiring extended car ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon has protected wireless customers from more than 8.2 billion unwanted calls in 2023, detecting more than 42 billion unwanted calls to date. In an ...

Slowly but surely, carriers are giving us the tools we need to fight spam calls. Earlier this week, Verizon added a new filter to the Call Filter app to specifically combat neighborhood spoofing calls ...

Spoofed scam calls are bad enough, but neighborhood spoofing is worse — it can all be too tempting to answer when you see a number eerily similar to your own. Verizon (currently Engadget's parent ...

Spam callers are always using every trick at their disposal to get you to answer their phone calls. Often, spam phone calls, such as the dreaded extended warranty call, come across the caller ID on ...

One of the most persistent and annoying breeds of spam calls can now be blocked if you’re a Verizon customer. We’ve all gotten those calls. You see a call that looks like it’s from a local number with ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. In recent years, as the number of spam and robocalls have flooded my phone lines, I started to notice a ...

In a bid to crack down on the unwanted spam calls that seem to be afflicting Americans at an ever-increasing clip, Verizon is working on a new tool to help weed out junk calls by automatically sending ...