Asklemmy

I don't get too much of them. I recently installed Spamblocker from F-droid. It uses a list of reported spammers to warn you that a call might be spam. And it works.

It also helps that I don't have much family or connections outside the country, so if I see a weird countrycode I already know it is BS.

And I just don't get called very often. Luckily I am in Europe, which means that if I leave my number with a company so they can call me, they cannot sell that number to anyone else.

I think over the last 5 years I've had maybe 6 calls? Something like that. I immediately know what is up and don't even pick up.

What phone os do you have?

For me android automatically blocks 90% of spam calls nowadays. I can see them in the phone history, but my phone don't ring for them.

No

Nope. But I have my info stripped from the internet weekly and are on the do not call registries. I get spam from time to time of course but haven’t had any lately at all. I get FAR less than my wife. I also don’t sign up for crap to get discounts like she does.

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

Brace yourself, because it's going to get a lot worse.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/big-telecom-robocallers-love-brendan-carrs-plan-to-lobotomize-the-fcc/

No, but I'm curious, do you order online a lot, where you have to provide a number they can put on the package? I assume someone along the way makes money on the side by collecting/sharing these numbers. But maybe that's just my paranoia.

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 use an app called KnownCalls that sends anything that isn't in your contact list straight to voicemail. Added bonus: No ads, free app.

It goes in waves, I was a week or so ago.

Yeah and I can't block them because the number changes slightly, probably using virtual numbers.

There is a setting in the Google phone app that's called "block unknown numbers" I think. Maybe give it a try

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.

I have unknown numbers forwarded directly to voicemail on iOS, but yeah I’m getting a bunch too.

This is why I live on airplane mode

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've had to resort to "do not disturb" 100% of the time, with the "allow contacts to bypass DND"

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.

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.

I hardly ever get spam calls. Today, I got a call from a government robocaller and a call asking for someone else whom I’m pretty sure had my number over five years before me. I thought these were legit but now, reading the comments, I’m not so sure.

People are way too willing to give out their phone numbers. So many apps and websites require a phone before ever signing in. I will not use any service that requires a phone number.

Because so many things rely on phone numbers now, when I got my new number in 2020 I lost access to a number of things.

2FA SMS verification can be spoofed so it’s not a secure method.

The only spam calls or messages I get are from government reps. Apparently “for government use” is not illegal and it’s practically impossible to get taken off the list. If anyone has a tip for this, please let me know.

Yea, I can't believe it is happening to so many people. I got so many loan calls today it is not even funny

My phone number was owned by a non-for-profit, and I'm still getting their calls 5-6 years later. Google Pixel phones have a phone-bot that picks up calls, introduces itself as a bot and asks you why you're calling. So I just posted my phone number on my website to make sure people don't think that it's still the nfp

I've had 3 almost every single day for a month or so.

I never set up my voicemail account because that's ancient technology that shouldn't exist. Unknown calls don't ring and known spam is auto-blocked. I sleep well.

I have gotten a couple in the last couple of months.. which is a lot since other than that I haven't gotten one in like.. over a year

I got 8 in the span of about five hours today. Absolutely insane.

I've also been getting random number calls, and it's always a robot telling in my native language: "Finaly, I have found you..." and I never get to hear the rest, I just hang up, I have better things to do than listen to spam. The annoying part is that i have to answer, i get important calls from unknown numbers from time to time.

Edit: is anyone else getting this kind of calls in the EU?

Closest I've come is recently getting a random call and then the majority of the robocall voicemail is garbled garbage

I had to get a new number a couple of years ago. That "fixed" the issue for a long while.

I was able to get some cheap numbers on VOIP so now I give those out to businesses that require a phone number, so that I can kill them if the spam calls start up again. It helps quite a bit. I know some people also use Google Voice to emulate what im talking about.

Honestly, most people dont even call me anymore, they just txt or video call.