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BlockTheCalls asks unfamiliar callers who they are and why they are calling. Your number, texts, outbound calls, and 911 stay with your phone and carrier. No screening tool catches every bad call. This one gives you a chance to decide.
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Dinner gets interrupted. Numbers you do not know keep ringing. Callers pretend to be the IRS, Social Security, tech support, or even family.
Unfamiliar callers get asked to identify themselves before you pick up. Known callers can still reach you. If someone turns off protection on a family line you manage, you get notified.
Request notificationAnd these are only the losses people reported.
$7.75 billion
People 60 and older filed 201,266 FBI IC3 complaints in 2025.
FBI 2025 IC3 Annual Report41%
Among older adults who reported losing at least $10,000 to business or government impersonators in 2024.
Federal Trade Commission analysis$67.1 million
People under 20 were represented in 31,254 FBI IC3 complaints in 2025.
FBI 2025 IC3 Annual ReportBlockTheCalls was born from firsthand experience trying to protect someone vulnerable from determined scammers.
An older adult close to our team lost approximately $20,000 to a tech-support scam. Later, he became convinced that he had won Publishers Clearing House. Most recently, he sent money orders to another scammer.
An aide at his assisted-living facility recognized what was happening and contacted the family while it was underway. She urged him to stop, but the scammer’s story had already taken hold. He would not listen.
The family has since been forced to pursue more serious protective measures, including guardianship. He continues to fight for his autonomy even while scammers manipulate him into decisions that threaten that autonomy, his security, and his future.
This is not rare. It is not a family’s failure, and victims should not be ashamed. Scammers create urgency, isolate people from those trying to help, and turn trust into money.
Our team is building BlockTheCalls to intervene earlier, before an unfamiliar caller has the opportunity to create that pressure, and to help families know when protection has been removed or needs attention.
If this story feels familiar, protect your family before the next call.
Impersonators pretend to be banks, government agencies, technical support, police, delivery companies, or family members in trouble. BlockTheCalls is designed to screen unfamiliar callers and give recognized or approved callers a clearer path to reach the subscriber, without promising that every call will be classified perfectly.
Children and teens are targeted through impersonation, harassment, threats, extortion, and attempts to establish private contact. Screening unfamiliar incoming callers adds a protective boundary without cutting them off from family, schools, doctors, or trusted friends.
BlockTheCalls does not currently monitor social media, gaming, web activity, or private messages. In 2025, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 1.4 million reports concerning online enticement, including more than 80,000 concerning sextortion.
NCMEC 2025 CyberTipline dataGuardian visibility is included in the BlockTheCalls MVP. If a supervised family member removes the app, attempts to disable protection, or the protection stops working, the account owner is notified.
Families stay informed without having to constantly inspect the protected person’s phone.
It is designed to give unfamiliar callers a chance to identify themselves before they interrupt you, while keeping trusted callers reachable.
An unfamiliar caller can be asked who they are and why they are calling before the subscriber decides whether to take the call.
Recognized and approved callers can reach the subscriber normally; unfamiliar legitimate callers can identify themselves during screening.
Account owners know when supervised protection is removed or needs attention.
| Approach | What it usually does | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Carrier “Spam” / “Scam Likely” labels | Warns you about risky-looking numbers | The phone can still ring; labels are not proof of identity |
| Aggressive automatic blocking | Reduces interruptions | Can hide wanted medical, school, or caregiver calls |
| BlockTheCalls screening | Asks unfamiliar callers to identify themselves before you decide | No system classifies every good or bad call perfectly |
| Service | Who it helps | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Incoming call screening | U.S. individuals and families | Does not replace your carrier or 911 |
| Guardian visibility | Account owners protecting a family member | Notifies when supervised protection needs attention |
| Public privacy education | Anyone reading the free guides | Educational only; no payment on this marketing site |
BlockTheCalls is an AI call-screening assistant, not a phone carrier. We protect incoming calls. We do not provide outbound calling or emergency service, and 911 remains on your normal phone.
A “Spam” or “Scam Likely” label is a warning, not a verdict.
With call labeling, a suspicious call can still ring. The label gives you context, but you decide whether to answer, ignore it, or block that number. Scammers can spoof familiar-looking numbers, so caller ID alone is not proof of who is calling.
More aggressive filters may reduce interruptions, but they can also hide wanted calls from a doctor, school, pharmacy, caregiver, or new service provider. Save essential contacts, review missed calls and voicemail, and test your settings before relying on them.
We are privacy advocates building protection that extends beyond unwanted incoming calls. We are using technology to close gaps left by carriers and government programs while minimizing data collection and keeping families, not platforms, in control.
Stay tuned as BlockTheCalls develops more ways to protect your privacy, your family, and the people most vulnerable to manipulation.
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People who get spam calls, telemarketers, harassing calls, and scam calls, and families helping an aging parent, a child, or someone else who needs a hand.
Common phone scams include government or business imposters, Social Security and IRS tricks, tech-support scams, grandparent or family-emergency scams, prize and lottery calls, fake debt collection, warranty and auto scams, charity fraud, romance scams, and AI voice impersonation. Scammers also spoof local numbers so the call looks familiar.
The account owner is notified if supervised protection is removed, someone attempts to disable protection, or it needs attention.
No. BlockTheCalls is an AI assistant focused on protecting incoming calls. Your number, texts, outbound calls, and 911 stay with your phone and carrier.
You continue to dial out, including 911, using your normal phone. BlockTheCalls does not provide outbound or emergency calling.
We collect only what is needed to provide the service, retain it only as long as necessary or legally required, and then delete it. See our Privacy Policy.
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