The future is now old man!
I'm guessing the mass here is from USA. People from EU, where regulations work better, what's your opinion on this?
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Poland here. I really get spam calls, once a week or less. My phone flags unwanted calls as spam so I don't pick up. If I miss a call from an unknown number, then I Google it. I almost never get to talk to a spam call.
Scamers put effort into learning Polish and you didn't even hear them out? Harsh.
I'm from the EU. I do the same. I hate getting calls. It forces me to drop everything I'm doing and suddenly switch contexts, which I absolutely hate. So I usually don't answer unless I expect the call or know the number. If it's important they can enter a voicemail or preferably send a message, either of which doesn't require an immediate response and is therefore a lot less annoying.
from the various comments it looks pretty much the same. I have two numbers UK, and PL, and I get spam calls on both of them. It's gotten to a point where if I don't recognise a number and don't specifically wait for a call from somewhere I just ignore it
Yeah, i see that. I guess I'm just lucky then. I mean there's this one survey company that nags ppl, but you block their one number or ask them to leave you alone and that's it. And the boring sellers always get flagged by Google so that's filtered out automatically. Basically, whenever my phone rings, it's for me personally and it's a call I'd want to take.
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Are spam calls that big of a problem, where you live?
I heard spam calls are rampant in the US. I'm not sure about other countries.
it's gotten significantly worse in EU in the recent years as well, anecdotally, I don't think I got more than idk maybe 10 spam calls in 2011-2019. Since 2020 I sometimes get as many as 3 a week
I have a sibling I have literally told to stop calling me who still calls me.
People are silly.
Next time you get a unknown caller, they won't be so unknown anymore https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/
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I literally just did this for student forgiveness spam. I use the Google call screening.
always
I tend to block numbers known to spam from a specific exchange, as well as those that duckduck throws shade on
Nah man, if it's not important enough for a call it must not be that important, if you text me I might not even open the message
Nothing like a good voice conversation, face to face or not
Me answering a call because it's way faster and convenient than only texting like a nervous, terminally online teenager who is trying to stigmatize using a phone to make phone calls: 🥱
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