T-Mobile United States of America incorporated has created a new technology to protect their telephone customers from scam telephone calls. On March twenty four two thousand seventeen, T-Mobile rolled out Scam ID and Scam Block. Scam identification alerts customers of potential incoming scam telephone calls.
Scam block allows T-Mobile customers to not receive incoming scam telephone calls at all. This technology works on every T-Mobile smart phone. You must be connected to T-Mobile’s network in order for these two free services to work.
Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer of T-Mobile said:
“Every year, three out of four people in the US get at least one scam call—and fraudsters cheat consumers out of more than half a billion dollars per year! It’s insane – so we had to do something to protect our customers! So the T-Mobile team designed a brilliant set of patent-pending technologies — then built them directly into our network, so there’s nothing customers have to do.
No hoops to jump through, no app to download. Like most T-Mobile technologies, it just works.”
Calls routed into T-Mobile’s network are scanned real time and compared to a database of prior scam telephone callers. If there is a match than you will see a scam likely alert on your smart phone display. If you would rather not see these alerts, than you can turn on Scam block instead.
Scam block will block these telephone calls from reaching your smart phone. Existing T-Mobile One customers will start receiving this service. New T-Mobile One customers will start receiving this service beginning April fifth two thousand seventeen.
Scam identification is automatically turned on by default. T-Mobile post paid customers can turn on this feature by dialing #ONI# #664# and clicking the call button in your dialer software program application. Customers can turn on Scam Block by entering #ONB# #662# and clicking the call button.
T-Mobile customers can turn off Scam Block by entering #OFB# #632# and clicking the call button. You can check to see if Scam Block is on or off by pressing #STS# #787# and clicking the call button. You must have a T-mobile network compatible smartphone and obviously T-Mobile mobile wireless telephone service in order to take advantage of both of these call blocking services.