Stopping junk calls: SmarTone

[TheBrit]

If you have an iPhone on SmarTone I finally found a way to stop junk calls. Unfortunately it costs $15/month for a 12 month subscription or $20/month on a month by month plan.

Download an app called "Call Guard" then phone up SmarTone to subscribe - you'll be asked to confirm via a SMS. Once set up, all calls from numbers on junk list are blocked from even reaching your phone. If one does get through, you can open up the app and report the number.

SmarTone maintain the database and add numbers as appropriate. Seems to work very well so far

A cheaper option is to download "HK Junk Calls" and have it make a huge junk call contact in your Address book, with hundreds of spam numbers listed. The phone still rings, but the caller is ID'ed as "Junk Call" so you can ignore. The disadvantage is that this doesn't work well with sync'ed address books and the number list doesn't look to be maintained.

Hope this helps someone - junk calls are irritating and I am content to pay $15 a month to make them go away - just answering a junk call when roaming already costs more than this.

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Frankly I think its a bit cheeky of SM to charge for this. If they actually got their act together (in they I mean the industry) and set up a proper database / system to avoid junk calls, then we wouldn't need to this app and SM making profit out of it.

[TheBrit]

Welcome to Hong Kong pin.

[sxc]

There is another app for iPhone called "Callers" which uses an up to date database to update the contact list.

[reprazent]

There is another app for iPhone called "Callers" which uses an up to date database to update the contact list.

I'm using Callers as well, their list seems to be updated regularly - i download/update every few weeks myself.

[muzzdang]

I mostly just ignore calls starting with 3xxx xxxx, most of the telemarketers use these numbers...

[Rob2020]

got android? use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...llfilter&hl=en

[zerocred]

I mostly just ignore calls starting with 3xxx xxxx, most of the telemarketers use these numbers...

I speak Cantonese to these callers. Ho-wah, mo-wah, mo-seen-deen-wha, tsim-sha-tsui, cha-sui-fan, sui-mai, har-gau *

Seems to work fine, then when they finally figure out I have no clue - then they get a torrent of swearing abuse, they don't have to understand English to know what it means.

* Insert name of favourite chinese food here.

[MovingIn07]

smartone have their own call guard app which stops junk calls.

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smartone have their own call guard app which stops junk calls.

Which you have to pay for.

There are free apps available on Android that do the same thing.