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T-Mobile offers Spam blocking and Robo call blocking

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I'm using a free service called YouMail on my iPhone... works with any carrier. They make their money on commercial support, so us peons can reap the benefits. Works pretty good. A whole lot better than AT&T's screening service. You just have to pay attention to the instructions as you set it up because you are forwarding your number to their service and if you decide to stop using the app, you can't simply delete it.
 
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I am a Sprint soon to be T-Mobile subscriber. Yesterday I got an email encouraging me to install the app. I have it on my phone now. We shall see how well they do. I have tried others in the past and found them to not be that good. So far one spam call has slipped by since I installed it.

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I just got a T-Mobile text message to download their Scam Shield app. Luckily I haven't had too many scam calls, or texts.
 
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I have it installed on my phone. Too bad it doesn't also stop those annoying text messages from politicians and other advertisers. I really wish Apple would provide way in iOS to block unwanted text messages.
 
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I rarely get annoying text messages - if I discount the ones from my friends and relatives! :giggle:

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