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>If it's someone who needs me, they'll leave a voicemail Then the next step is for spammers to leave voicemails

ceejayoz 9y ago
iOS now transcribes voicemails (I suspect Android does the same), which makes it incredibly easy to go through them. "Hi! This is Rachel from card[DELETE]"
dahart 9y ago
Ugh, you're right. The political robo-calls have already started doing that to me, I keep getting calls from the Orrin Hatch campaign. If it starts happening with all of them, I'm going to resort to whitelist only. Auto-block all unknown numbers.
- greggarious 9y ago
  I made the mistake of donating during the presidential election and now I get loads. It's especially problematic since each Senator/Rep has a separate opt out list - every time I tell one to stop a week later a different campaign is hitting me up.
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delecti 9y ago
I get several voicemails a week from unrecognized numbers that are ~3-5 seconds of silence. I suspect it's the spammers' autodialers not recognizing that there's not an actual person on the line, and giving up once there's a few seconds of silence (post "leave your message at the beep" beep).
MrMember 9y ago
Christ, I hope not. I get enough spam calls that I ignore, I don't need them leaving voicemails too.
greenyoda 9y ago
The next step has arrived already. I never used to get voicemails from phone spammers before, but now I'm getting voicemails in Chinese from what's apparently the "Chinese Embassy Scam": https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/beware-of-the-chinese-embassy-scam-abacus/article_cfd6a980-d4d0-11e7-88e1-47fbdf22484d.html https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/beware-of-the-chin... I'm not Chinese, so I'm definitely not being personally targeted by the scam. But apparently, there are enough Chinese speakers in NYC to make randomly calling people and leaving voicemails in Chinese a viable form of crime. (I've also had the same cell number for 17 years, so I know it hasn't been recently owned by a Chinese person.)

iOS now transcribes voicemails (I suspect Android does the same), which makes it incredibly easy to go through them. "Hi! This is Rachel from card[DELETE]"

dahart 9y ago

Ugh, you're right. The political robo-calls have already started doing that to me, I keep getting calls from the Orrin Hatch campaign. If it starts happening with all of them, I'm going to resort to whitelist only. Auto-block all unknown numbers.

greggarious 9y ago
I made the mistake of donating during the presidential election and now I get loads. It's especially problematic since each Senator/Rep has a separate opt out list - every time I tell one to stop a week later a different campaign is hitting me up.

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delecti 9y ago

I get several voicemails a week from unrecognized numbers that are ~3-5 seconds of silence. I suspect it's the spammers' autodialers not recognizing that there's not an actual person on the line, and giving up once there's a few seconds of silence (post "leave your message at the beep" beep).

MrMember 9y ago

Christ, I hope not. I get enough spam calls that I ignore, I don't need them leaving voicemails too.

greenyoda 9y ago

The next step has arrived already. I never used to get voicemails from phone spammers before, but now I'm getting voicemails in Chinese from what's apparently the "Chinese Embassy Scam": https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/beware-of-the-chinese-embassy-scam-abacus/article_cfd6a980-d4d0-11e7-88e1-47fbdf22484d.html https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/beware-of-the-chin... I'm not Chinese, so I'm definitely not being personally targeted by the scam. But apparently, there are enough Chinese speakers in NYC to make randomly calling people and leaving voicemails in Chinese a viable form of crime. (I've also had the same cell number for 17 years, so I know it hasn't been recently owned by a Chinese person.)