# If a phone company offered non-phone number spoofing, would you:

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**Created:** [August 16, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-phone-company-offered-non-phone-number-spoofing-would-you/793823 "2017-08-16T20:47:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-phone-company-offered-non-phone-number-spoofing-would-you/793823/21 "2017-08-17T18:35:38Z")

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I would switch carriers and I’m also willing to pay the $5.00 per month extra to guarantee I don’t receive any more spoof calls.

I am almost always streaming something on my phone and hate getting interrupted several times per day with some annoying spoof call.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-phone-company-offered-non-phone-number-spoofing-would-you/793823/22 "2017-08-18T13:16:41Z")

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> [@gazpacho](#):
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> Verizon is currently selling a service that flag calls a likely spam. It seems to work pretty well for the 1 month free trial they gave me. I have heard that other carriers are including similar services at no additional cost. I don’t really get enough spam calls to pay $3 a month to avoid them.

Now that you mention it, Sprint offered the same or similar service via an app called “Caller ID”. As the phone is ringing the app displays a message for numbers not in your contact list identifying the caller via caller ID and/or indicating that the number has been tagged as potentially associated with fraud or spam. Neat during the free trial period, but to continue costs $2.99/month. Since I can’t see how this is significantly better than the “don’t answer let them leave voicemail” method described above, I have declined to pay.

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