Blocking Unwanted Calls With Tasker
I have been using Tasker to read the name of a phone caller. It's very similar to the Read SMS Sender task I set up and described earlier. The only differences are that I use "%CNUM" (incoming phone number) instead of "%SMSRF" (incoming text phone number) and if I result in a name (someone in my contacts after I do the lookup) I repeat "Call from <name>" 3 times instead of just once like with a text. But the real purpose of this post is to talk about blocking an incoming call. I have been getting a couple calls a day from a scammer. At first, I used the built-in feature to block the incoming call. That worked all right except for 2 things. First, my Tasker task still read the number even though the phone didn't ring (that part is easy to fix). Second, the call went directly to voice mail and they left a voice mail twice a day. So they aren't really "blocked" as I would define it. Tasker to the rescue. In that same task tha...