Lately I've been receiving a lot of spam phone calls. Being an engineer I started thinking about how to solve the problem and avoid wasting time and/or being scammed.<p>I thought there ought to exist a list of annoying phone numbers like those that have been created for malicious/advertising domains but I could not find any.<p>Why is it so that nobody thought of it? Am I missing something important here?
I don't think a blocklist is the solution. I think the solution is to block all incoming comms by default, and require people to make exceptions on a case-by-case basis. The dark forest is for everybody.
Any list that has enough accuracy to be useful is valuable, and isn't going to be available for free.<p>Perhaps you've heard of <a href="https://www.nomorobo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nomorobo.com/</a> ?
Many or most robocall caller IDs are spoofed, so a block entry has a short timespan - a few hours to a few days. That’s why many people use apps. Check out AT&T’s free CallProtect app or your mobile carrier’s equivalent.
Quite the contrary, such lists are a dime a dozen. Search the web for the phone number—not for a list—and you should get several hits from different websites.