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.
I don’t get them, which is not that surprising as I live in Europe where we have at least some consumer protection (still not enough though).
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.
I’m from EU and I’ve been getting spammed a lot for the past week, mostly from UK numbers for some reason
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.
I’ve had to resort to “do not disturb” 100% of the time, with the “allow contacts to bypass DND”
I’ve had 3 almost every single day for a month or so.
Get a call blocker app, tell it to block every single phone call, whitelist your contacts. If they are not in your contacts, but its important, they will leave a message.
Not since my provider(Koodo) started offering Call Control. When humans call my number they get a recording that they have to enter a number that is randomly selected with each incoming call.
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 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.
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.
This is why I live on airplane mode
Brace yourself, because it’s going to get a lot worse.
God I wish the whole administration would stroke out already.
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.
Yea, I can’t believe it is happening to so many people. I got so many loan calls today it is not even funny
