T-Mobile beefs up its anti-spam arsenal with Caller Verified

T-Mobile beefs up its anti-spam arsenal with Caller Verified

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https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobile-beefs-up-its-anti-spam-arsenal-with-caller-verified/

With the new tool, incoming calls on the T-Mobile network will read "Call Verified" only when the company has confirmed that the call is "authentic and not intercepted by scammers." 

Caller Verified is an effort to fight caller ID spoofing, aka when scammers temporarily highjack a phone number that matches the area code and first three digits of the person they're calling, to make you think it could be someone you know. 

T-Mobile beefs up its anti-spam arsenal with Caller Verified

Jan 10, 2019, 8:38pm UTC
https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobile-beefs-up-its-anti-spam-arsenal-with-caller-verified/ > With the new tool, incoming calls on the T-Mobile network will read "Call Verified" only when the company has confirmed that the call is "authentic and not intercepted by scammers."  > Caller Verified is an effort to fight caller ID spoofing, aka when scammers temporarily highjack a phone number that matches the area code and first three digits of the person they're calling, to make you think it could be someone you know.