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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
No more spam calls or texts! The $5.99 app that protects your privacy and gives you peace of mind: 'This is absolutely an essential app'
How many times a day do you receive a spam text or call? How many times have you fallen prey to one of those telemarketers pretending to steal your information? Give yourself peace of mind with a spam protection service like no other: YouMail. YouMail checks every call and text to tell you if it's safe. Its advanced screening tech also shows which block list you're on, so you can remove yourself and stop future spam. Plans start at just $5.99, and you might qualify for a free trial. YouMail: The Ultimate Protection Against Robocalls and Spam Block spam calls and texts with ease and protect your privacy. You can even personalize your voice mail greetings, get transcriptions, and keep your number off future spam lists. Reverse caller lookup also lets you see who's trying to reach out to you. $5.99+ Shop For those who value their privacy, this tool is a game-changer. It protects your identity, your information, and keeps strangers from being able to reach you on a daily basis. YouMail has a massive following, too, with over 13 million users, according to the brand. YouMail does more than just block telemarketers too — it can help organize your voicemails. It automatically transcribes voicemails and lays them out for you, similar to your email inbox. You can also set personalized voicemail greetings for your contacts, depending on who's calling you. You can also merge YouMail with both your smartphone and computer, making it easy to transfer and listen to voicemails wherever you are. Its main draw though, is the ability to keep spam callers at bay. YouMail also offers a reverse caller lookup so you can see who called you. It will even keep track of just how many robocalls it's blocked for you, and the best part is — when your device gets a spam call recognized by YouMail, your phone won't even ring! YouMail will completely block the caller for you. Tons of users seem to love it too, adding testimonials to YouMail's website. 'This app does everything it says it does, mainly blocking spam calls and making sure to let unknown callers show who they are for the call to go through,' says one user. 'Excellent. Significant reduction in spam and my friends enjoy the personalization when they call!' says another. 'This is absolutely an essential app in this day and age of so many frivolous calls. It brings much more efficiency to your voicemail,' adds a third. If you suffer from constant spam calls and texts, this app is an absolute must-have. It's easy to get for your device, and with plans starting at just $5.99 a month, it truly is worth the cost.
The Guardian
07-05-2025
- General
- The Guardian
How are you supposed to handle cold callers nowadays? You can't even slam the phone down
E very breath I take, and every move I make, every bond I break, every step I take, they keep phoning me. This is a chain of London estate agents, well known to be – and doubtless proud of the accolade – the pushiest of a pushy breed. I bought a flat through them more than 10 years ago and I've had no peace since. It seems they think I might want to sell or rent it. I've told them I don't. I've even told them I don't own it any more. But it does no good. They always come back for another try. Perhaps they just want to keep in touch. Sweet, really. About once a month, a London number I don't recognise flashes up. It's them. Clever, really, that they don't withhold the number. Looks as though it might – might – be a call that needs answering. But now that I'm wise to their ways, I reject the call. You would hope they would take the hint and, like spurned lovers with too much pride to persevere, give up. Oh no. So, diligently, ruthlessly, unceremoniously, I block the number. But they have a workaround so simple that it is almost sophisticated – a month later, they call from another number. And so it goes on. My policy is never to answer unrecognised or withheld numbers. Very little good comes from them, in my experience. But sometimes I get caught out, even by this lot. This is annoying because I will have answered the number I didn't recognise only because I was awaiting an important call I needed to take from a London number. At this point, I'm afraid I bark at them to leave me alone. I slam down the phone, if only metaphorically. Slamming down a phone, that valuable physical means of spleen-venting, is yet another important thing we have been robbed of by the mobile phone age. Back in the day, wielding a big heavy handset at the end of a curly cord, you could slam – yes, slam – the phone down with a most satisfying bang or ding. It felt good, really good. Phone-slamming was almost a national pastime. You saw it in films all the time. Those old rotary dial phones were made of strong stuff, perhaps specifically designed to withstand the force of these rages. Slam down your mobile with similar force and you will do a grand's worth of damage. Performatively, all we are left with is something a bit lame. You stab rather than press the red button, with a little more emphasis than usual, but the gesture has to be too controlled to properly express anger. To fill the fury gap, you nod your head once and say 'Hmm' in a harrumphing kind of way. No sooner have I sent the cold caller packing than I start feeling guilty for my rudeness. I wonder what it must be like to get up in the morning knowing you are going to spend a good part of the day calling people who will hardly ever be pleased to hear from you. One call after another, hour upon hour, being rebuffed politely or impolitely – if anyone picks up at all. Once in a while, I will engage the poor devil in conversation about the weather, or their hopes and dreams. But it soon becomes obvious that they – or at least their superiors, listening in – are looking for money, not friendship. I can almost hear them writing the word 'loon' on my file. And with that I am hurried along so they can get on with the next call and crack on with the sorry business of ramping up the day's tally of rejections. Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist
Phone Arena
06-05-2025
- Phone Arena
Spammer alert app TrueCaller gets a free alternative on iPhone as LiveCaller launches today
Unwanted phone calls are a growing security risk, not just an irritation. These range from telemarketing to dangerous scams trying to steal personal information, sometimes using sophisticated AI-mimicked voices. The LiveCaller press release notes the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reported Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, with $1.9 billion from phone scams. LiveCaller aims to offer protection. How LiveCaller works on iOS 18 When a call arrives, LiveCaller encrypts the number (scrambles it for security) and instantly checks it against its global database of over 4 billion numbers. If matched, the caller's name or a clear warning label like "Spam: Telemarketing" appears directly on the iPhone's call screen in real-time. A new free alternative to the popular Truecaller app has just entered the arena: LiveCaller, from developer , is now available for iPhone users with iOS 18 . This app uses Apple's Live Caller ID Lookup framework to help users identify unknown callers and combat spam calls without any initial phone calls are a growing security risk, not just an irritation. These range from telemarketing to dangerous scams trying to steal personal information, sometimes using sophisticated AI-mimicked voices. The LiveCaller press release notes the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reported Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, with $1.9 billion from phone scams. LiveCaller aims to offer a call arrives, LiveCaller encrypts the number (scrambles it for security) and instantly checks it against its global database of over 4 billion numbers. If matched, the caller's name or a clear warning label like "Spam: Telemarketing" appears directly on the iPhone's call screen in real-time. Receive the latest iOS news By subscribing you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy Its native integration with iOS 18 is a key advantage, meaning it works smoothly within the iPhone's system. This eliminates the need to keep the app constantly open or perform complex manual setups – common issues with older iOS caller ID solutions. This design allows for the automatic flagging of unwanted calls and is available in 28 languages.
Bloomberg
06-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The Obamacare Loophole Health Telemarketers Love
Hi, it's Zach in New York. On Monday, I wrote about a new kind of skimpy health plan that some customers are calling a rip-off. More on that in a moment, but first … There's a new kind of health plan being sold by telemarketers these days. More than 100,000 US households have been enrolled already. Here's what's new about these plans: When you sign up for coverage, you're also being signed up as an 'employee' of the company behind the plan.
