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

Privacy Star was one of the best apps in the original 4.x version. The new version updated then deleted all the messages that were stored. The calls that were made/received remain on the app, except no one can leave a message. If you had messages saved before updating the app "BE AWARE THAT THEY WILL ALL BE DELETED" I had several important messages with appointments and every voice message was deleted during the update. I wish there was a warnig that stated voice mail messages will be deleted.

PrivacyStar was running well enough that I paid the $2.99 subscription when it came up after the trial month a few years ago. I used it to quickly block spam calls. Unfortunately a few days ago they completely changed something with it without telling me, and now it wants me to activate "conditional call forwarding" and agree to use their servers for voicemail. I am going to ask for an explanation or an option to opt out. If I'm dissatisfied I will be canceling the service.

As a marketing technologies developer, I am always amazed at "solutions" that try to do too much and as a result fail to do so because they overeach or when the inevitable changes outside their control (upon which they depend) come along it breaks the tool. Not so, Privacy Star. It just works. Within a couple of days, my incoming calls are under control. Great. Simple. Done.

What's new

A new version of PrivacyStar is now available