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.
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).
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.
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 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.
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.
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
It answers the call behind the scenes without you needing to hear or listen. It pops up a notification saying that the call is ongoing with the screening AI, and you have an option to immediately stop the call or to pick it up. It also records a transcript of the call for you to listen to afterwards. It also doesn’t screen every call, if it’s a number in your contacts it lets it through to you as normal.
(I still find that really freaky, but appreciate the answer)
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 had to resort to “do not disturb” 100% of the time, with the “allow contacts to bypass DND”
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’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.
This is why I live on airplane mode
I’ve had 3 almost every single day for a month or so.
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.
I have unknown numbers forwarded directly to voicemail on iOS, but yeah I’m getting a bunch too.
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.
Yea, I can’t believe it is happening to so many people. I got so many loan calls today it is not even funny
