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Over the past 6 months the number of robocalls to my mobile number has increased from 1 or 2 a week to at least 5+ a day. I’ve also just stopped answering numbe
by agotterer 7y ago
Over the past 6 months the number of robocalls to my mobile number has increased from 1 or 2 a week to at least 5+ a day. I’ve also just stopped answering numbers I don’t recognize.m, which isn’t always ideal because I miss legitimate calls now. I actually just send it immediately to voicemail. Most of the time my voicemail box is full because it’s filled with junk I don’t bother clearing out.
Ive contemplated changing my number. But I imagine that won’t actually help. Is this just the new reality? Are there any solutions?
- sethammons 7y agoI've moved to a new area code and kept my old number. Aside from known contacts, if I get a call from my phone's area code, I know it is not legit. If I get a call from my new area code, I know it has to be a local someone and I should answer it. Zero accepted robo calls in 6mo.
- jerf 7y agoI've also done the "moved out of the area code of my number 15 years ago" [1], but someone's gotten smarter lately. They've hooked up to some sort of information source and I'm getting a lot more robo calls from my real area code lately. Since we have so many dozens of thousands of our best and brightest thinking day in and day out about how to violate our privacy, more dozens of thousands figuring out how to monetize that data, and so many dozens of our best and brightest thinking about how to secure that data, I can't even begin to guess what they've got a hold of or what it is, just that it's enough to start spamming me with faked calls that look a lot more real. I've literally noticed this just in the last couple of weeks; at least for me, it's a relatively recent development. YMMV. [1]: https://xkcd.com/1129/ https://xkcd.com/1129/