Telemarketer ☠

Sick of getting nuisance calls? Problem not solved by apps like TrueCaller ( iOS / Android ), or just fancy taking a more organic, hands-on approach to blocking calls? Now you can!

Instructions

Set Up

To get started with blocking nuisance calls,follow these steps to add the Telemarketer ☠ contact to your phone:

1. Visit this link on your phone and add it to your contacts
2. Use your phone's settings to mark Telemarketer ☠ as blocked.
   • More details from Apple's knowledge-base
   • Or Android Authority
3. Done! My list of 60 or so (at the time of writing) nuisance callers is now blocked on your phone.

Adding numbers to block

If you receive a nuisance call and want to block them, the easiest way is to add the number to the existing Telemarketer ☠ contact:

• on iOS:
  • In "Recent Calls", tap the 'i' icon next to the number that called you, and select 'Add to Existing Contact', and then select Telemarketer ☠
• On Android:
  • From the call log (in the Phone or Dialer app), tap the number that called you, and select 'Add to Contacts', and then select Telemarketer ☠
• Done! The nuisance number is now blocked!

Sharing your blocked numbers (optional)

If you want to share your blocked numbers with me (and whoever else downloads this contact), that's easy:

1. On iOS:
   • In 'Contacts', select the Telemarketer ☠ entry and tap 'Share Contact' at the bottom of the screen. Select email and send it to telemarketer (at) perhammer.com and I'll merge your changes with mine.
2. On Android:
   • In 'Contacts', do a long press on the Telemarketer ☠ entry and tap 'Send namecard via' from the menu. Select email and send it to telemarketer (at) perhammer.com and I'll merge your changes with mine.
3. On GitHub:
   • If you want to send me a pull-request:
     • Clone this repo
     • Follow all the above instructions to email your Telemarketer ☠ entry to yourself
     • Merge your .vcf into your repo
     • Send me a pull-request :)

Disclaimers And Acknowledgements

All the numbers stored in my Telemarketer ☠ contact were nuisance callers as identified by services like [who-called.co.uk] and [whocallsme.com] at the they called me. If you strongly believe a number has been added in error, or is no-longer originating nuisance calls, please contact me at notatelemarketer (at) perhammer.com and I'll consider removing it from the shared contact.

This approach to blocking calls was originally suggested by @loh who also shared the original Telemarketer ☠ VCF on Twitter.