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Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

This is a really dumb fix that I started using several months ago when I was getting 5 or 6 spam calls a day.

I would answer, and if they asked for my name or whoever lives at my address I would tell them they have the wrong number, I'm not them, I don't have a house, whatever. Anything to make them positively sure that the person they are looking for does not exist here. Within 1 week the calls dropped off significantly. Now, about 5 months later I get maybe one call per month.