‘Ask Your Grok Bot’: Elon Musk Shares Easy Hack to Remove Your Number From Spam Lists

Elon Musk, the owner of X and founder of xAI, has a simple solution for users annoyed by spam calls and texts. Turn to Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot, to remove phone numbers from spam call and text lists.

Musk made the remark in reply to a post on X by a user named Arash, who said he had grown tired of spam calls and had an AI bot find his number on listing sites and file the removal requests. Arash added that he had made the process a free skill, a packaged set of instructions for an AI agent, so others could do the same.

Musk’s response was brief: ‘Ask your @Grok @Bot to remove your phone number from spam call & text lists!’ The reply signaled his confidence in Grok’s capabilities, turning a user’s workaround into a general recommendation.

Musk’s advice lands at a time when there’s deep frustration around spam calls. Americans received an estimated 2.56 billion robocalls per month between January and September 2025, according to data from YouMail analyzed by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) logged more than 2.6 million Do Not Call complaints in fiscal year 2025 alone. By January 2026, the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry had reached a record 258 million registered telephone numbers.

How Does Grok Bot Actually Help?

The Grok Bot website has a ‘Spam-Call Scrubber’ skill, which can be used to end the nuisance of spam calls.

As per the official description, Grok Bot skill ‘finds your phone number on people-search sites and data brokers, submits the opt-outs, finishes the email confirmations, and re-checks on the schedule you choose. Asks only for the minimum details it needs.’

It’s worth nothing that the Spam-Call Scrubber is not an official xAI offering, and a user needs to first download and install the Grok Bot app, weighing around 140MB for Macs. The on-screen instructions will navigate the user after the initial sign-on process.

What Grok Actually Does the Registry Cannot

The National Do Not Call Registry, a free federal program administered by the FTC, allows Americans to register their phone numbers to block most unsolicited telemarketing calls. Registration does not expire, and legitimate telemarketers are required to stop calling within approximately one month of a number being added.

Over 4.7 million additional phone numbers joined the registry in fiscal year 2025 alone, according to the FTC’s annual Do Not Call Registry Data Book, published in December 2025.

The registry has a significant limitation, though. Political campaign calls and texts are explicitly exempt from its protections. Consumers who receive unwanted political solicitations can report them to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but those calls are not covered by the Do Not Call rules.

That gap is where data brokers come in. These are companies that collect, package, and sell personal information, including phone numbers, addresses, and behavioral data, to marketers, scammers, and third parties.

Grok, as Musk framed it, can serve as a navigator through the often confusing and fragmented process of submitting opt-out requests to these data brokers individually. Most data broker opt-out processes are buried in privacy policy pages or require separate submissions to dozens of companies. An AI assistant capable of generating step-by-step removal instructions for each broker could meaningfully reduce the friction for ordinary users.