How to Stop Calls from United Lending, 1-877-200-2515

January 10, 2025 2:56 PM

I get 5-15 phone calls and voice messages a day from "Morgan" at "United Lending" asking me to call 1-877-200-2515 about my loan application. I don't have a loan application. I've done the obvious/usual (see more inside) to no avail. I need these calls to stop. Is there an app I can use that is better enough than Google/Android's built-in screening to be worth paying for? I am willing to pay.

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HEY BEFORE YOU ANSWER,
BEAR IN MIND:
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1. I use Android and I already screen calls with Android's built-in assistant
2. I am already on the Do Not Call registry
3. I have already called and asked them to stop
4. I have already reported them many times to the FCC
5. This is also my work phone, so simply never answering a live call and/or continuing to screen everything with automated tools is not good; it's pissing my customers off
6. I am not going to switch to a different phone or carrier
7. I am not in a position to be able to change my number, even if I thought that would help
8. I don't need anyone to explain how the various aspects of this scam work, because I already know for the most part (I am in telecom and sales) and I do not care to discuss anything but solutions

Correct answer format is: this Android app/service works for me better than the built-in stuff and it's name/link is [foo]

Incorrect answer format is: literally anything else.

Sorry to be cranky, but I am speaking to you from a place of extreme annoyance and I do not have it in me to humor people doing silly AskMe stuff.

If you do not have an answer in this format, you are not needed here, but I thank you for reading.

posted by DirtyOldTown to Technology (16 answers total)

I use Should I Answer, a free Android app that has a variety of blocking tools. You can certainly set it to block one specific number.
posted by suelac at 3:13 PM on January 10 [1 favorite]

Answer the call and dial 9 to get off their list.

Someone used your phone number when looking into credit card dept consolidation options somewhere like Credit Karma or BHG Financial. The Do Not Call registry does not apply since from their prospective these aren’t marketing calls, “you” asked them to call you.

I can tell you from personal experience that dialing 9 is the only solution here. You’ll never come close to blocking all the numbers they might use. They’re probably just using a general pool over at Twillo and that’s millions of numbers.
posted by Back At It Again At Krispy Kreme at 3:16 PM on January 10 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Suelac, if it isn't clear, they're calling from endless different spoofed numbers

Back At It Again, did you have an app you wanted to recommend or did you just not see items 3 and 8 above?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 3:23 PM on January 10 [2 favorites]

This is also my work phone

Does your employer have in-house legal staff?
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 4:00 PM on January 10 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Company legal is a fresh thought, but I don't want to do that.

Really I just want an app. Surely there's an app that picks up spoofed numbers faster? Maybe? No?

Nothing else is really going to interest me. I tried to say as much, wasn't even nice about it, really. The whole only this kind of answers please thing isn't the nicest tack to take. I know this. I'm pretty frustrated today and the whole AskMe cycle where people seem to read twenty words and start answering, caveats and specifications be damned maybe wasn't something I should have dipped my toe in.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:13 PM on January 10 [6 favorites]

Not an easy solution, but if you're in a different country somehow those spam calls just don't seem to come through.

Maybe doing a two week work trip to another country would get them off your phone?
posted by Art_Pot at 4:16 PM on January 10

Response by poster: My company is US-only and my role is specific to my metro area.

What I would like to know if anyone can recommend an app.

I can pull a list of apps from a search or AI, but I was hoping someone else would vouch for one.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:18 PM on January 10

Response by poster: I really do appreciate y'all and I don't mean to be a crank. I'll buzz off and y'all just answer like you wish.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:39 PM on January 10 [1 favorite]

Mod note: ChatGPT-generated answer removed. No wrath here just "Hey we can all do that, let's use our human brains here"
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:44 PM on January 10 [15 favorites]

This iOS app sometimes catches things that the built-in tools don't, and there's an Android version: Hiya.

I wouldn't expect it to completely solve your problem, but it might intercept some calls :)
posted by box at 5:09 PM on January 10 [3 favorites]

I've had good luck with the Robokiller app.
posted by virve at 5:55 PM on January 10 [1 favorite]

I found rototiller (the same one verve cited above; I have lost the war with autocorrect today) the best of the bunch when I last tried them. It supported wildcard blocking.
posted by Dashy at 6:51 PM on January 10 [2 favorites]

Mod note: One removed; Must be Android app.
posted by taz (staff) at 9:10 PM on January 10

...and just to give you some hope, that was two phones ago. I was having a lot of trouble for a while, but once I'd used the paid version of robokiller for a while, my number must have fallen off of the list of "live" numbers and i didn't seem to need iton the next phone. Good luck.
posted by Dashy at 5:09 AM on January 11 [2 favorites]

If you want to try reaching out to your State Attorney General office (depending on where you are located) it's worth seeing if they will provide a strongly worded message to the lending agency. They're a different route than the FCC you've already tried.

I was surprised years ago when my State's AG office was helpful with a different topic, but it's no cost other than your time spent providing information.
posted by mightshould at 5:58 AM on January 11 [3 favorites]

Can you transfer your number to Google Voice? I find that I get significantly fewer spam calls on Google Voice than on my underlying number (which I never give out unless I have to do business with someone who discriminates again VoIP). I assume that Google does a good job blocking them, but maybe it's just luck.
posted by novalis_dt at 9:00 AM on January 11