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I have DND on all day/night for exactly this reason. It's set up to allows calls from people in my contact list to get through - which is fine because none of

I have DND on all day/night for exactly this reason. It's set up to allows calls from people in my contact list to get through - which is fine because none of them are going to call me unless they _really_ need to. What's frustrating is when dealing with a healthcare provider or contractor or something, where they're going to call within the next couple of days, as then I need to turn off DND and open up the potential for the spam calls to make my phone ring. Fortunately there are far fewer spam calls this year, but there are still a few. > I think it's basically rude to expect you can just interrupt someone at any point and demand their direct attention to have a synchronous voice conversation with you I think that's a huge part of it, along with all the new asynchronous forms of communication we have put together in the last couple decades. 30+ years ago, you could visit, call, page, or send a letter. There was no immediate means of sending a fully thought-out message that the recipient would receive quickly and then be able to answer on their own time in the range of immediately through never. I definitely prefer it this way. Maybe 14-year-old me who could talk on the phone for hours wouldn't be a huge fan, but adult me very happily keeps overall phone time to a few minutes per month.

asdff 5y ago
I feel like living somewhere and having an area code from somewhere else is a secret hack for this. Call from my area code 1000 miles away? Definitely without a doubt spam. Call from the local area code? Almost always legitimate. If I ended up having a local number I'd lose this natural filter.
- enobrev 5y ago
  Absolutely! My number is from a city I haven't lived in since 2012. Anyone I know who calls me from that city is definitely in my contacts. Everything else is spam or politicians (also spam, but less so as someone who had voted in local races).
- xboxnolifes 5y ago
  I feel like a lot of spam networks have worked around this. When I went to school hundreds of miles away from my area code, I got very few spam calls from my phone's area code. Most came from the area code I was living in.
  - asdff 5y ago
    That might be from your phone number getting leaked to some spam companies over the course of being in school. There's always those random events or emails or whatever in college where you inadvertently put your contact info down and I'm sure these spammers try their hardest to get ahold of student phone numbers and other lucrative metadata. At least where I live now its nowhere near my home or my old college, dozens of states and several time zones away, and I just don't get any spam from these local area codes over here. I just scrolled over my last few months of call logs to see if this was true, and all the spam was from my phone number's area code from back where I grew up or an adjacent area code to that one somewhere near my home city. It's all voicemails and occasional texts asking me to sell a specific house I don't own (sometimes the exact address changes). Maybe I lucked out, who knows.

asdff 5y ago

I feel like living somewhere and having an area code from somewhere else is a secret hack for this. Call from my area code 1000 miles away? Definitely without a doubt spam. Call from the local area code? Almost always legitimate. If I ended up having a local number I'd lose this natural filter.

enobrev 5y ago
Absolutely! My number is from a city I haven't lived in since 2012. Anyone I know who calls me from that city is definitely in my contacts. Everything else is spam or politicians (also spam, but less so as someone who had voted in local races).
xboxnolifes 5y ago
I feel like a lot of spam networks have worked around this. When I went to school hundreds of miles away from my area code, I got very few spam calls from my phone's area code. Most came from the area code I was living in.
- asdff 5y ago
  That might be from your phone number getting leaked to some spam companies over the course of being in school. There's always those random events or emails or whatever in college where you inadvertently put your contact info down and I'm sure these spammers try their hardest to get ahold of student phone numbers and other lucrative metadata. At least where I live now its nowhere near my home or my old college, dozens of states and several time zones away, and I just don't get any spam from these local area codes over here. I just scrolled over my last few months of call logs to see if this was true, and all the spam was from my phone number's area code from back where I grew up or an adjacent area code to that one somewhere near my home city. It's all voicemails and occasional texts asking me to sell a specific house I don't own (sometimes the exact address changes). Maybe I lucked out, who knows.