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I am not a fan of black lists (as you imply, they may not be up to date, tellows I think is community maintained so you take what you get) & I liked the challenge / response of functionality of the TrueCall. But having recently moved to VOIP using a Fritz!Box (not Zen VOIP but that is irrelevant, I think) I found a workaround that is a bit clumsy but so far has not caused any problems.
I imported all my Contact details from my Apple address book to the Fritz!Box.
This created a new Address Book which I had to copy into the main Address Book on the Fritz!Box.
I then created two diversions directed to Voicemail:
- one for any anonymous callers or no CLI
- the other for any phone number not in my Address Book
Quite clumsy (& one needs to maintain the Address Book either manually or by repeating the above process - but my contacts change infrequently now I'm retired) so I have sent a Feature Request to AVM to implement a more elegant solution.
The main downside is for legitimate callers who either withhold their numbers or whose numbers are not known to me - the NHS is an example. If I am expecting such a call I disable the Diverts, just in case they do not leave a message.
Having said all the above, we get very few nuisance calls (we kept our geographic telephone code) & I don't think any failed legitimate calls.
If anyone knows a better way then please say !
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