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I'm not on Facebook at all, and my spam call rate has shot up too. I think it's just an increase in spam calls, not a result of Facebook hackery. If anyone you

• jerf 8y ago
  Part of my point is that you don't need to "hack Facebook" to get basically every phone number. If you intend to indiscriminately spam everybody, you can just do that, you don't first have to "hack" anything. It's part of why robocalls are such a problem. The tech to do it is decades old; VOIP and later innovation certainly make it easier, but it's been possible and not that expensive for decades. You only have to hack Facebook to improve your targeting or something, but as I said, I've seen at best no evidence, and really negative evidence, that the recent spate of calls is well-targeted.