Submitted on Tuesday 5th July 2016
Published on Monday 18th July 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 18th January 2017
Signatures: 19
Make a 1471 type phone service to report scam calls and block offending numbers.
We're all open to scam phone calls e.g. from 'Microsoft fraud dept' wanting to connect to my PC so they can 'delete a virus'. At the moment, we have to be reactive to these calls and can only spread the word on Facebook, emails etc to warn others but what if we could all help to actually stop them?
When you get a call, you can dial 1471 to get the last callers number. I want to get the phone companies to take collective action to create an easier way to report and block scammers. My idea would be free service that, after getting a scam call, you could dial a 4 digit number, like you do with 1471. This would report the last callers as a scammer. If this number gets over a certain number of reports, it could then be blocked.
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