PrivacyStar: SCAM protection

PrivacyStar

About this app

PrivacyStar is full-featured call protection for your smartphone, from industry leader First Orion.

With PrivacyStar, you can reclaim control of your phone, with features like:

🔥 Scam Likely Protection
🔥 Enhanced Caller ID**
🔥 Reverse Number Search
🔥 Block by Call Category
🔥 Prevent callers from leaving voicemails**
🔥 Blocked call notifications**
🔥 Report fraudulent calls to FTC

Did you want some rave reviews? Well, CBS, TIME, and Forbes are among the many who loved it:

“PrivacyStar uses larger databases of untrustworthy numbers to preemptively block calls from the outside.” – The Verge

"PrivacyStar won’t just tell you who it is, but also identify the caller indicating how likely they are to be an annoying telemarketer." – TechCrunch

But let’s get to the features:

🆓 Scam Likely Protection - We update our database EVERY. SIX. MINUTES. By the time you’ve watched a few TikToks, we’ve refreshed all of our data with the most accurate information to ensure you’re protected against scammers, spammers, and fraudulent callers.

✅ Enhanced Caller ID** - Never wonder who’s calling again! We’ll identify incoming calls with a Name, Category, even an Enhanced Image and Logo when available.

🆓 Reverse Number Lookup - Lookup any number. Go ahead, try it. PrivacyStar will display the owner of the number and an associated call category, if available.

🚫 Block By Category - Block telemarketers, account services, shady politicians - even your ex.

🛑 Prevent Callers from Leaving Voicemails** - Block calls and prevent new voicemails, or block calls and send them straight to voicemail. Your phone, your choice.

🔔 Notifications** - We’ll shoot you a notification when calls are blocked, sent to voicemail, even when you have new voicemails.

📉 Report Callers - File a report against abusive callers directly from the app! We’ll send those reports to the FTC, and they’ll put them on a bad guys list.

🚫 Custom Call Blocking - Add any number to your blocklist. Seriously, any of them.

🆓 Category ID - Displays the Call Category of the incoming call, if available.

🛡️ Protect Privacy - Your contact list? Not our business. We only use your contacts to help your incoming call experience - your contacts stay where they belong, on your phone.

** = Features only available to Verizon, AT&T, and Cricket customers at this time

Interact with us on:
▪️Twitter - https://twitter.com/privacystar/
▪️Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/firstorioncorp/
▪️Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/privacystar/

*Due to changes in the Android system, text blocking is not available on Android version 4.4 and higher.
*Enhanced Caller ID requires a network connection.

Ratings and reviews

I have had privacy star for over a year and it has stopped a lot of the robo calls and unwanted calls it is a great app. Once I updated the app it stopped working properly. It does not pop up to block calls at all. The app is definitely not user friendly. I may not renew my subscription when time is up unless they fix these problems

I installed this app over a year ago and it worked amazingly. Just a few months ago, they updated the app, and now it is HORRIBLE. I used to get a pop-up when a call came in that showed me the the caller information, that is now gone. I used to be able to look up numbers, now I just get "information unavailable" and worst of all, it BLOCKS ALL CALLS that aren't in address book, and doesn't allow me the option to see or unblock numbers that were blocked. I have missed so many calls. Uninstalling

Helps me avoid nuisance calls, especially at work. It's great! (2017) After 4 years, I find it interferes with my voice mail. It also auto-blocked a bunch of numbers that interfered significantly with my job search. At this point I uninstalled it, and it STILL interferes with my regular voice mail system, leaving me messages that the app can't connect and voice mails aren't allowed. (2021)

What's new

This release corrects an issue where a number lookup did not return lookup name. It also provides a new reporting feature to report fraudulent calls.