stopping fraud

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possible to only recieve calls from contacts?
My father is suffering from dementia. He has T-mobile. In the past 60 days, he has received robo-calls and unsolicited calls from people asking for money. He has given them what they ask for. Most recently he fell for the compromised social security number scam and sent people in California $600 to fix the problem and issue him a new SSN. These calls are becoming more and more frequent and more and more frustrating for the rest of us, to include more and more costly! He has a flip phone, as he cant do a smart phone. Is there a setting in the account associated with his number that we can fix it to where he only recieves calls from known numbers, like just those in his contact list? I understand we can *67 each number but would still have to get to the phone before he does when it rings. What are some of our options to protect him/us?
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tbuhlayzik
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Surveys from 1112 is virus?
After speaking with T-Mobile support at 611, I got text messages from (916) 436-5649. It says "Warning! Surveys from sender 1112 and 1115 is a third party virus that can compromise security breach of data from your device such as bank account and social security number. We highly advice to delete it within 12-24hrs. To report the survey please click the link below https://www.usa.gov" I received the 15 same messages with about 5-10 minutes interval. About ten minutes later after the last received message, a text arrived from sender 1112. It says "T-Mobile Free Msg: How did we do when you spoke with us on Nov 10? To opt out of the survey reply STOP. Survey information will be stored - t-mo.co/Privacy". 3 more messages were received from the same 1112 with follow up questions. What's going here? The messages from (916) 436-5649 seems more suspicious to me. The word advice vs advise. And they were annoying by sending repeated message in short time period. Was the surveys from sender 1112 legit?
tochi
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