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Does this guy not understand that 99% of calls from unknown numbers are spam? If he picks the person who always answers, he's gonna be disappointed when they're spending more time answering spam calls than doing intern work.
Since hiring Bob the amount of phishing has gone up. Bro clicks on everything
No he really doesn't. He has little people to handle the phone for him.
It's almost always a spoofed number with my same area code from an Indian call center trying to scam me with car or senior health insurance. I'm not even close to 40 yet these assholes all seem to have the idea I'm a senile old man willing to empty out my wallet for them. Hell no I'll never answer my phone.
How many spam calls are y'all getting? I get maybe 2-3 per year and that's only if you count telemarketers from phone companies, who I deliberately answer because that's the only way to get cheap phone service in this fucked up economic system.
I literally cannot remember the last time I got an actual spam call from some robot call center pushing a scam.
I don’t know how you achieved this magic, but I’m envious. Just checked and I had seven spam calls yesterday and nine the day before. iOS finally adding call screening has legit changed my life
Might be a local difference since I'm in Finland. There was a period a few years ago where robot spam calls from foreign numbers were pretty common (as in, maybe one every couple of months), but the phone companies implemented some new system to block those and they haven't really been a problem since.
Oh…. Yeah I’m in the US and we’re not about anything that would actually help people
They don’t show up as foreign numbers in the US, just random US numbers. I don’t answer any numbers I don’t recognize anymore.
One of the biggest fails in phone service was the ability to spoof caller ID. Spammers will use prefixes from known cell phone blocks or the same prefix you’re on to make it look more legitimate. The carriers should have also included source number checking too as they shouldn’t be getting an external call from a number that they own.
This is one of the ways I identify spam calls. My cell phone number is from a long way away from where I live now. As far as I know I have no remaining associations with any businesses in the area - certainly none that wouldn't have cause to leave a voicemail - and I know the numbers of my friends and family in the area.
Therefore, if I get a call from an unknown number in that area code and they don't leave a voicemail, they were nearly certainly spam callers. Often even if they do leave a voicemail.
A little while ago I got a call from a number in that area code and they did leave a voicemail, but I haven't been able to figure out what the point was. For the purposes of this anecdote, let's pretend my name is John Smith. The voicemail consisted of the following:
"[Long silence] John? [Another long pause] John ... [One more long pause] Smmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiitthhhhh .... [Final long pause, then disconnect]"
They haven't called back, so I have no idea what they wanted. For the two times saying my first name, I figured they were just a recruiter who thought I had picked up, rather than my voicemail; but the way they stretched out my last name (and said nothing further) was honestly creepy as hell.
We had three categories of spam calls here here: spoofed numbers that appeared local (usually originating from outside the EU), numbers from other EU countries and numbers from third countries.
I believe they fixed spam calls from the spoofed numbers by some kind of technical improvement, the out-of-the-EU calls with blacklists, and the calls from inside the EU (and adjacent countries) by doing a few high profile police raids at the illegal call centers that were doing it and clamping down on the companies that provided service to them. https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/operation-pandora-shuts-down-12-phone-fraud-call-centres
For me, it’s a weekly occurrence. I loathe it, but for practical and personal reasons I have to pick up all calls. Lately, there are calls where you hear, oddly loudly, a keyboard clicking away. Spam call 100%
Stay on the phone until you get a person, talk to them for a couple minutes, when they ask for some piece of information say "hang on I need to go grab it" and place the phone down. Waste their fucking time.
These people call hundreds of people every day. If each of these people waste 3-5 minutes of their time that's going to waste their entire day.