You Can Jam the Scam with These Smartphone Tips Now

You Can Jam the Scam with These Smartphone Tips Now

If you were to grab your smartphone right now and check out the incoming calls log, how many would you have that weren't in your contacts list?

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Its seems like more and more scammers are trying to get personal information at an exponentially quick rate.  But there is a way that you can block some of those calls from bugging you while more important things are going on in your daily grind.

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A Third of Calls are Estimated to Be a Nuisance Call

Depending on the survey, estimates are that more than a third of the calls you receive are probably a spam or scam type call.  Percentages of fraud calls isn't as high, but still at about 4%.  And that doesn't include text scams that hit you all the time.

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Did you know that there is a way to help limit or even stop some of those annoying calls by just a simple setting in either iPhone or Android smartphones?  There is, and it just might save your sanity in dealing with scammers.

Jamming a Scammer - How to Change Settings in Your Smartphone

To stop those scammers from interrupting your afternoon nap, there is a simple setting that can send calls from non-contacts straight to voicemail.

To block unknown numbers through an iPhone, use the following settings:

• Go to settings>phone>silence unknown callers

To block unknown numbers on most Android phones, use the following:

• Go to settings>Caller ID and Spam>enable spam filtering or blocking