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.
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It goes in waves, I was a week or so ago.
Not quite as bad as 20 in 2 days but basically any time I get a phone call, it’s probably safe to say that it’s someone trying to sell me something. It especially sucks when you’ve been handing out your CV and applying for jobs and shit, so you have to answer calls from unknown numbers. But if it’s anyone that I actually know, they’ll use WhatsApp.
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.
I have gotten a couple in the last couple of months… which is a lot since other than that I haven’t gotten one in like… over a year
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 never set up my voicemail account because that’s ancient technology that shouldn’t exist. Unknown calls don’t ring and known spam is auto-blocked. I sleep well.
I have unknown numbers forwarded directly to voicemail on iOS, but yeah I’m getting a bunch too.
I’ve had 3 almost every single day for a month or so.
I’ve had to resort to “do not disturb” 100% of the time, with the “allow contacts to bypass DND”
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.
For those on iOS you don’t need an app to do this.
You can go to settings -> apps -> phone -> silence unknown callers.
This will send them straight to voicemail and the call will show in the recent calls list.
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I’m from EU and I’ve been getting spammed a lot for the past week, mostly from UK numbers for some reason
Don’t ever make the mistake of giving your phone number to a US company. I did that when I started my new job and didn’t have a company phone number yet, since then I’ve been getting daily spam.
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.
I had to get a new number a couple of years ago. That “fixed” the issue for a long while.
I was able to get some cheap numbers on VOIP so now I give those out to businesses that require a phone number, so that I can kill them if the spam calls start up again. It helps quite a bit. I know some people also use Google Voice to emulate what im talking about.
Honestly, most people dont even call mean anymore, they just txt or video call.
This is why I live on airplane mode
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.
