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The spam call filter is arguably one of the best benefits of using a Google Voice number. My spam call and voicemail folder is full of SEO, payday loan, and other outright scam messages. Just activate the filter and you never see these calls unless you go into the spam interface on the Voice site. You can manually add a number to your spam block but most calls are auto-blocked against a list of known offenders.


I use google voice (hangouts?) and get 3 to 6 robo voicemails a day. They are 2-5 seconds in length, and empty.


You have to activate spam call filtering, it is not on by default.


I do have it enabled and they still get through. I also have 'straight to voicemail' turned on for all calls, so maybe that bypasses the spam check...


Google Voice filters out most of the spam calls I get, but there's still one or so per day that make it through.




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