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For me it started this year. Once every few days I get a spam call, sometimes in languages I don't understand (chinese, etc). It's always during business hours.
by Florin_Andrei 8y ago
For me it started this year. Once every few days I get a spam call, sometimes in languages I don't understand (chinese, etc). It's always during business hours.
I'm pretty sure my phone is in some do not call database, but that doesn't seem to help much recently.
Our phones need a "this is spam" button, and that data needs to go to the telecom, and they need to do something with it.
- dorfsmay 8y agoBut isn't the incoming number easy to spoof?
- Florin_Andrei 8y agoIt is. But I'd imagine the telecom has lower level information about that connection.
- jonathankoren 8y agoYou can sometimes enroll in spam detection from your cell phone provider. For some, but not all, calls T-Mobile will tag the call "Scam Likely". The call still goes through. It's not much at all really, because I already don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. Still it might be useful for some marks^H^H^H^H^H folks.
- vishnugupta 8y agoThis used to be a huge problem for me as well until TrueCaller came along. Spam calls have reduced to close to zero. Maybe one or two a month. The perceived downside is that one has to share their contact list with truecaller. For me personally it's a perfectly reasonable price to pay for what I'm getting in return.