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Yeah I get spam phone calls almost daily, and it's always from a local area code and ANI which I recognize as being from a nearby city. So, it _seems_ legit.
by amatecha 8y ago
Yeah I get spam phone calls almost daily, and it's always from a local area code and ANI which I recognize as being from a nearby city. So, it _seems_ legit. But I no longer answer phone calls from numbers I don't already have in my Contacts... :P
- jghn 8y agoIn my case I have a bit of an outlier combination so it never seems legit when I get a call from a number like that. Makes it easier to spot the spammers, however!
- CPLX 8y agoOne thing I hadn’t thought of until a friend who is a parent mentioned it, is that if you have a young child and that child is currently out of your sight you basically have to pick up a call from any possibly local number, it’s just too risky not to. I would imagine that accounts for a lot of the success of this strategy.
- jjeaff 8y agoI inadvertently solved this by keeping my old, out of state number. I can pretty much block all numbers that match my prefix if they aren't in my contacts. Any actual local number is always legit since spammers have no way of knowing where I actually live.