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How many of you have received these calls? I got a ton of them along with my husband and siblings.
Those were partly the reason I stopped answering unknown numbers.
Spam callers have basically ruined telephone as a medium. For many, a phone call is more likely to be fake and spam than it is to be legitimate. And even if the call claims to come from a source you might trust, good odds it's spoofed and thus cannot in fact be trusted.
A shame on telecoms for not being willing to tackle the problem.
Both email and the telephone have been ruined by spam for me. The inbox has become an unwieldy, inefficient mess.
At least email has some tools to help mitigate the issue, like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. They aren't perfect, but they are loads better than telephony.
Plus addressing (your-email+somearbitrarytag@domain.com) is also a nice tool at your disposal. Helps track where the spam is coming from. I've found few/none trim it when storing addresses so it consistently works.
I've never gotten that to work. Did Gmail remove the ability to do it? I'm probably just dumb.
It should still work. It’s become kind of a common pattern. I’ve found it works in Proton Mail too which is nice.
I'm even getting Google Drive spam now. Complete randos "sharing files" with me. There's no way to prevent it.
Job hunting is the worst. I have to answer every single call for a while knowing full well it's probably a telemarketer but not having any other choice.
Same, the only time I answer my phone is when I want to mess with the spammers.
I've started forwarding the calls to Google voice or if i accidentally pick the call, i use bixby's auto answer.
Either eay the call drops in a hot second.