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People move is a big one. Since smartphones became popular, I’ve noticed that people tend to keep the same phone number from where they got their first phone nu
by irrational 5y ago
People move is a big one. Since smartphones became popular, I’ve noticed that people tend to keep the same phone number from where they got their first phone number. So I will receive calls from all over the place, except they really are all local calls from people that now live in my town. So when I see that a call is from Wisconsin, that is meaningless since it could be from someone living down the street.
- spinax 5y agoWhen I left a previous state, I paid to port the local area code number away from (major cell carrier) over to Google Voice (I've had this number some 20 years now). Many of the folks I work with (tech sector) have cell numbers from different states, having moved into this state only for work and some day plan to leave/return to their original home.
- bigwavedave 5y agoYeah, I've moved a couple of times and still have the phone number I got in the second state I lived in. The nice thing is that, for the most part, the only people calling me from that state's area code are robocallers who are spoofing what they hope is my local area code. I very rarely answer unknown numbers anyway, but seeing these kinds of area codes on my caller ID almost guarantee it's a spam call.
- MivLives 5y agoAnd now I know that if I get a call from my numbers zipcode and I don't have them added it's a robocall!