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I've never seen them before, but during the last couple of months have gotten multiple, from international numbers.
by kall 4y ago
I've never seen them before, but during the last couple of months have gotten multiple, from international numbers.
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah totally weird and for many Americans to get a call from a foreign country code is very unusual. I started getting spam with apparent chinese origin numbers within the past few months.
- RedShift1 4y ago(Belgian here) After the facebook data leak in 2021 I got 2 or 3 spam calls a week from various numbers but mostly from the UK. I started reporting them as spam immediately and for the last couple of weeks it seems to have died down.
- AnssiH 4y ago(Finland) Within the last year I've gotten two "ms support" scam calls, before that nothing. Hopefully the authorities and carriers can figure it out before it grows to US levels. At least they are working on it (English article from Dec 2021: https://www.traficom.fi/en/news/traficom-looks-ways-block-international-scam-calls https://www.traficom.fi/en/news/traficom-looks-ways-block-in..., latest Finnish technical recommendation PDF on call blocking from Feb 2022: https://www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/regulation/Suositus%20teleyrityksille%20A-tilaajanumeron%20v%C3%A4%C3%A4rent%C3%A4misen%20havainnoinnista%20ja%20est%C3%A4misest%C3%A4.pdf https://www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/regulation...).
- ciropantera 4y agoOut of curiosity, you got these scam calls in Finnish? I always thought that US was a specially good market for these scams because you have ~300m potential victims and a good supply of english-speaking people in poorer countries who are willing to participate on the scheme, so a Finnish-speaking ms support scam would be hard to understand from this point of view.
- AnssiH 4y agoNo, they were in English.