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Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s--- about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with? I really don't use SMS that much either, mostly it's via signal, discord whats app, ect...

Just to put it out there I run CalyxOS on a Pixel 5a.

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[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I pretend to be another call center. Or an IVR.

"Thank you for calling Punkadye Laboratories and Archives. My name is Terry. May I have your GSN number please?"

I don't know what a GSN number is; just something that I made up. Once in a while, I get an actual person, but I insist that I have "their latest GSN or a recent invoice," before I continue. I have "a call center voice," and can reasonably fake gender neutral.

Sometimes I answer, "Thank you for calling Punkadye Laboratories and Archives. Please listen closely, as our menu options recently changed. If you know the number of your party's extension, you may dial it at any time. If this is a billing question, please press 1. If this is technical support, please press 2."

Rarely does the call get past the press one part. Often this cuts the latest wave of calls quickly.

[–] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

as our menu options recently changed

They've ALWAYS changed... 😭

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is it recent? This is recorded. When you said "recent", did you make a little note take that word out it a month or so?

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The person who recorded our IT department's ivr message hasn't worked here for almost a decade, but the message still says "the options have recently changed.."