Robocall is another term for those unwanted and often repetitive auto-dialed calls that are typically a telemarketing strategy to get you to buy something, possibly even a fraud scheme that can cost millions of dollars. Thankfully, Ethan Garr and his team released an app in 2017 called RoboKiller specifically designed to disrupt, confuse, and even annoy spam callers by wasting their time with deliberately outlandish responses recorded beforehand, so that they never dial your number again. There is also a flagging feature for those calls that did not get blocked, and the app uses an algorithm that learns from user feedback in real time.
This is what it says on their App Store Preview:
RoboKiller is the award-winning app that blocks spam calls. [It] has been featured on The New York Times, NBC, Wired, Engadget, Vice and other publications.
RoboKiller is free to download, however a subscription is required after a 7-day free trial. Find out more about how the app works on Ozy.
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