“Do you need a loan?”

“Do you want to buy a house?”

“What are you doing in the stock market recently?”

……

A similar sales call will ring almost every day. If you are not harassed someday, you may still wonder if your phone is out of power or has a down payment. Although there are a lot of harassment phone interception applications on the market, there are always a few leaks and the interception rate is limited. However, when the operator takes the shot, the effect may be different.

Yin Mobile officially released the high-frequency harassment phone protection business yesterday. The business has been piloted in some areas before, and this time it is nationwide. We took this opportunity to organize the anti-harassing phone functions of the three major operators and Apple. If you are fed up with these may be the sales calls made by AI, you may wish to follow the following methods.

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  • China Mobile: High Frequency Harassment Phone Protection
  • China Telecom: Tianyi Anti-harassment
  • China Unicom: Anti-harassment reminder service
  • iOS 13: Unknown call mute

China Mobile: High Frequency Harassment Telephone Protection

Opening steps:

  1. Send SMS ktvolte to 10086 to activate VoLTE, users who have opened can skip to step 2
  2. Send KTFSR to 10086 to activate the high frequency harassment phone protection service. This service is free (send SMS QXFSR to 10086 can be cancelled).

WeChat adds “China Mobile High Frequency Harassment Phone Protection” service number, bind the mobile phone number, click on the bottom menu “IndustryYou can set the harassment interception, black and white list and other personalization settings. You can specify the number to block the beginning of the 400, 950, 951 and other sections, or you can add 3 custom number segments. If you are worried about important calls being called ” Injury can be added to the whitelist. The number of the black and white list supports manual input or direct selection from the call record, which is relatively convenient, and the upper limit is 1000.

In the bottom menu “Find More” > “Personal Center”, you can set the intercept notification method. After the default interception, the system will notify the user by SMS, or change it to no notification or WeChat notification.

▲ Image from: China Mobile

According to the introduction of mobile, its harassing phone number database is dynamically generated based on communication big data, markup and yellow page information, and callback verification results. In the cloud, it is judged and implemented in real time, but after all, harassing calls are constantly iteratively upgraded. It is impossible to intercept hundreds of people. Due to the short test time, we can’t see the interception effect for the time being.

China Telecom: Tianyi Anti-Harassment

Unexpectedly, Telecom also launched the “Tianyi Anti-harassment” service, which is very similar to mobile high-frequency harassment phone protection, last month. The operation is basically the same as the latter, and the operation can be completed on the WeChat public account. First open VoLTE.

WeChat adds the “Tianyi Anti-Harassment” public number. Enter the mobile phone number as prompted to log in and confirm the opening of VoLTE. After waiting for 1 minute to receive the successful SMS, you can use the call anti-harassment service.

Tianyi anti-harassment also provides the functions of block interception, black and white list, interception record query, etc., similar to mobile, but provides more detailed interception options, in addition to common marketing calls such as 950/951/400. It can also identify high-frequency calls, refusal calls, business promotion, real estate agents, insurance, and fraudulent calls that are dialed multiple times in a short period of time with high rejection rate and short talk time.

China Unicom: Anti-harassment reminder service

China Unicom has launched anti-harassment services in the past few years, but today it is a bit rudimentary.

Send the text message “KT” to 10655587. After receiving the confirmation message from Unicom, reply “Y”, the connection is successful, then there is no more, no… no app, no public number, simple to doubt Which step did you miss? (Send SMS QX to 10655587 to close the service.)

In terms of actual results, it really didn’t make much difference. After all, what is the meaning of “anti-harassment reminder service”? When the operator detects that the call is a suspected harassing call, it will send you a flash reminder similar to “China Unicom’s warm reminder that the xxx call is a harassing call, has been marked xxxx times”, and does not say that I am a Unicom user. There are only a handful of reminders that have been received in the past few years, and it’s even more frightening that this kind of reminder usually appears after hanging up the phone…

Obviously, from the perspective of function and practicality, China Unicom was actually rubbed on the ground by two opponents.

iOS 13:Unknown call mute

The iOS 13 just released last month brings a lot of new features. Unknown call mute is one of them. When this feature is enabled, the call that is not in the contact list will be automatically muted and transferred to voicemail. The procedure is as follows: Settings > Phone, and the “Mute unknown call” option is enabled.

▲ Image from: Apple

Voicemail is located at the rightmost button of the “Phone” app. “Voicemail”. When you open it for the first time, it will be opened or set up. Currently, it supports mobile and Unicom users. This is a charging service. The mobile is 3 yuan/month, and Unicom is 5 Yuan/month.

Although the system can identify the number that is not in the address book but the user has recently de-energized as a normal call, the judgment standard for the harassing call is obviously too simple and rude. The possibility of missing important calls is not low, let alone the voice mailbox is opened. After receiving more harassment of advertisements, I suggest you think twice before adopting it.

Apple obviously also knows that its anti-harassment function is relatively tasteless, so it is recommended on the introduction page of this function on the official website.Users go to the App Store to download “applications that detect and block harassing calls.”

Overall, the anti-harassment function of mobile and telecommunications is the most perfect. Unicom obviously needs to update the system. The anti-harassment that comes with iOS can only be said to be better than nothing, but each of them has no way to intercept spam messages. You have a better harassing phone/spam blocking app on hand, so feel free to share it with us in the message area.

The title map is from: PCMag.com