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Please help !  These calls are making me crazy.... 

Thanks for writing back. Yeah, *87 is supposed to turn the Anonymous Call Block off - but it wouldn't and I had to have someone at Verizon do it.
After spending hours with some very nice people trying to help, I finally was transferred to someone in the "Fiber Solution Center " (  love the name...), who confirmed right away that - indeed - Call Intercept won't work when you have Anonymous Call Block ( and several other features...) that come with the "Freedom Package".  I don't know if this is unique to Fios customers or not.  At any rate, he took off the "Anonymous Call Block" from my Freedom Package - but Call Intercept is still not working.  No name- and no number are displayed and it still won't work. Many hours have been spent on the phone with Verizon and I surrender , and will discontinue this feature.  Too bad.  It seems like it could be a great feature... 

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