@damianmkv wrote:
It’s not always “practical” to let numbers ring out or hope genuine callers leave a message.
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Perhaps providers could be more proactive to stop these calls
Whichever option you use to mitigate against the scam calls (ignoring, answering machine, screening with a device etc.) is up to you, based on how much you use your landline, how many scam calls you receive, how much the calls annoy you, how much money you are willing/able to spend to solve the problem and how much you actually use your landline.
If you make regular use of your landline to receive important calls, then you should look at a trueCall unit or a BT Premium phone and reclaim the use of your landline from the scam callers. I would recommend the trueCall standalone unit as it is the most customisable.
Read through the many (which must be into the hundreds) of threads on this subject on 'Home Phone' and 'Security Matters' forums and you will discover why trying to block individual numbers is a fruitless exercise for the automated scam calls and won’t stop them ringing your phone (even if such a number blocking feature was available on a VM landline).
Over the next few years, the existing phone network will be moved to a VOIP-based service and screening the calls at a network level will become more practical to achieve. With that in mind, it seems fairly unlikely that VM will add any more anti-scam-call features to the existing phone network. In the meantime, you have to pick whatever DIY approach works for you in dealing with the scam calls if you use a VM landline.