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> Company researchers estimate 1 in every 2,200 calls is a fraud attempt. This number does not pass the smell test for me. About 2 out of 3 landline calls tha
by jimhefferon 11y ago
> Company researchers estimate 1 in every 2,200 calls is a fraud attempt.
This number does not pass the smell test for me. About 2 out of 3 landline calls that I receive are fraud attempts.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoMaybe they're counting cell calls as well? I get maybe one call a month that I would classify as spam. Also, do you get many calls on your landline, or is it more that you get six calls a month, four of which are spammy?
- greggman 11y agoI get almost no legit calls to my cell phone (no land line). So I get percentage-wise a very high number of spam calls. My solution is too add the number to my contact list and mark that contact as silent ring. There's 33 numbers spread across 4 "scam" contacts (a contact can only have 10 numbers). Some of those numbers have called up to 10 times. Where as if I check my "recent" call list there's been no more than 2 legit calls a month
- pavel_lishin 11y agoInteresting; I wonder if there's a way to check which company currently owns those numbers. Then again, I'm sure it's a totally legitimate (no sarcasm) company; hard to make sure that 0% of your customers are spammers.
- jimhefferon 11y ago> Also, do you get many calls on your landline, or is it more that you get six calls a month, four of which are spammy? I'm 56 so I get more calls on my landline than on my cell. :-) Maybe three calls a day, two on the landline, and of those the great majority of the ones during the day are spam (sometimes a dentist appmt-type call, but typically spam).
- tvanantwerp 11y agoWith the exception of my wife, 90%+ of calls I receive are fraud attempts.