In the past two days alone, I’ve gotten over 20 spam calls with none of them leaving a message. Just 3/4 seconds of silence on my voice mail. One call the other day left a 22 second blank message.
Nope. But I have my info stripped from the internet weekly and are on the do not call registries. I get spam from time to time of course but haven’t had any lately at all. I get FAR less than my wife. I also don’t sign up for crap to get discounts like she does.
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I don’t get too much of them. I recently installed Spamblocker from F-droid. It uses a list of reported spammers to warn you that a call might be spam. And it works.
It also helps that I don’t have much family or connections outside the country, so if I see a weird countrycode I already know it is BS.
And I just don’t get called very often. Luckily I am in Europe, which means that if I leave my number with a company so they can call me, they cannot sell that number to anyone else.
I think over the last 5 years I’ve had maybe 6 calls? Something like that. I immediately know what is up and don’t even pick up.
No, but I’m curious, do you order online a lot, where you have to provide a number they can put on the package? I assume someone along the way makes money on the side by collecting/sharing these numbers. But maybe that’s just my paranoia.
It goes in waves, I was a week or so ago.
My Google Pixel uses AI to answer the call in the background, and will automatically report as spam and block these calls. I haven’t gotten a spam call in over a year
Hmm - I have a Pixel as well. I’ve been blocking / reporting but they seem to come from tons of different phone numbers. And for some reason the Pixel lets them leave a voice mail if they’re blocked / known spam.
I’ve had Pixels for years and the call screener is my favorite feature. It confuses so many people.
Wait, where do I enable this? 😮
Edit: Found this guide, but Spam & Call Screen isn’t available on my 8 pro. So I guess it’s only regionally available. :/
Edit 2: Some people online seem to have the same problem. Assigning Phone back as Spam App in the phone settings, clearing the cache and force stopping the Phone app also didn’t change anything.
The voice is very similar to mine, which really trips people up when I use it lol
I gotta get a pixel
Uh… does your phone still ring, or does it literally answer the call and the robot voice takes over. In both cases, I find that freaky
Brace yourself, because it’s going to get a lot worse.
God I wish the whole administration would stroke out already.
Here’s my tip, for Lemmy hopefully it will never get so popular as to not work any more.
Answer the phone for unknown numbers, don’t say a g-d thing, just listen. Let them address you first.
If they ask for you by name go ahead and respond, if they call back answer with a generic “hi” greeting, don’t let them have your voice or name before you know who they are and what their business is.
A robot will mark your number as a “dead line” and not call you again.
A person will either be trying to reach you (and know who you are) or trying to reach a living person, and not waste their time with an unresponsive line.
I do this all the time too. The new standard for polite calling anyone is to initiate the conversation if the line goes live as far as I am concerned. Never say anything for an unknown caller, and expect to get dropped or hung up on even if you are legitimate. If you’re unwilling to call me twice or thrice, you didn’t need to call me in the first place.
I’ve been getting scam texts but in a group chat with other people. They’re just sending the same scam over and over again.
Yep, I got a series of those recently claiming that I had unpaid paid tolls. Each messagr came through as a group text with two or three random numbers, which were immediately removed from the group after the text arrived. I’ve been wondering why they started doing this. I assume they’re trying to exploit some kind of loophole in the carriers spam filtering.
There is a setting in the Google phone app that’s called “block unknown numbers” I think. Maybe give it a try
I did this and regretted it.
Many professional services withhold their number for obvious reasons. Turns out my doctor was trying to contact me and couldn’t.
Oh, yeah. I had the same problem with Disney+ customer service. Well. It’s better than this hell
I have unknown numbers forwarded directly to voicemail on iOS, but yeah I’m getting a bunch too.
This is why I live on airplane mode
I use an app called KnownCalls that sends anything that isn’t in your contact list straight to voicemail. Added bonus: No ads, free app.
Just to throw this in. If you use this, check your voicemails.
I often have to call customers to check ambiguities in their orders and people just dont return calls. Our contracts clearly state that in the event that you cant be contacted we arent responsible for any errors.
Yea, I can’t believe it is happening to so many people. I got so many loan calls today it is not even funny
I hardly ever get spam calls. Today, I got a call from a government robocaller and a call asking for someone else whom I’m pretty sure had my number over five years before me. I thought these were legit but now, reading the comments, I’m not so sure.
People are way too willing to give out their phone numbers. So many apps and websites require a phone before ever signing in. I will not use any service that requires a phone number.
Because so many things rely on phone numbers now, when I got my new number in 2020 I lost access to a number of things.
2FA SMS verification can be spoofed so it’s not a secure method.
The only spam calls or messages I get are from government reps. Apparently “for government use” is not illegal and it’s practically impossible to get taken off the list. If anyone has a tip for this, please let me know.
