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I strongly suspect that once you answer a few spam calls, or a few calls where they hang up immediately (this has to be some sort of probe)-- you end up with ma

I strongly suspect that once you answer a few spam calls, or a few calls where they hang up immediately (this has to be some sort of probe)-- you end up with many more spam calls. My personal cell, I do not answer voice calls unless I know your number-- I get one or two calls a week. My house phone however-- much like you a family member had a medical issue-- and we had to start answering the phone. Over the course of a week the number of spam calls went from 3-4 a day to 12ish a day. After the medical issue was settled, we stopped answering random calls, and within a few weeks the number of calls settled back down to a few a day.

jjav 5y ago
> I strongly suspect that once you answer a few spam calls, or a few calls where they hang up immediately (this has to be some sort of probe)-- you end up with many more spam calls. I think it's more luck of the draw on which lists the phone# is. I have an old cell phone (had since ~2006) which gets no spam at all! I have a new cell phone number which is relentless, easy double digits spam per day every day. And I've never answered any call on that phone except from known family member numbers. The house landline gets maybe 1 per week or so. Probably less.