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Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year. I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Cana

by munk-a 4y ago

Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year. I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Canada but it was quite dramatic compared to the US. There are periodic waves but I tend to miss out of them - I suspect because Canada works hard to prevent dumb auto-dialers from working.

barbazoo 4y ago
It used to be much, much worse here. The CRTC has done some work to address that, it seems like it helped. [0] [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-telecom-call-authentification-1.6250599 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-telecom-call-authentif...
rikthevik 4y ago
Another data point from Canada. I've given up answering my phone or checking my voicemail after 10+ calls a week.
pkaye 4y ago
I feel the STIR/SHAKEN changes have made a difference with spam calls for me in the US.
- smegger001 4y ago
  I don't know, my wife gets spam calls almost daily, but i almost never get spam calls. on the otherhand I almost never actually give anyone my real phone number and just give everyone my Google Voice number instead. Google seems pretty good at detecting and filtering them out. the only people with my real phone number are family members, my employer, and a few friends from high-school that had it from before i signed up for google voice in the 2000s.
  - lxgr 4y ago
    Google Voice indeed seems to be much better at spam call detection than anybody else. Most of them don’t even make it to the "spam" folder in the app for me; they must be rejected at some lower level due to very high confidence.
aledalgrande 4y ago
Lucky you, if you have a Vancouver number you'll definitely get calls from the "Chinese immigration department" which wants to get you deported unless you immediately wire $1000. How do I know that if they speak in Mandarin you say? I have great imagination B-)
throwaway019254 4y ago
I live in Vancouver and spam calls significantly dropped for me too. It's only a few calls a week now.

by munk-a 4y ago

barbazoo 4y ago

It used to be much, much worse here. The CRTC has done some work to address that, it seems like it helped. [0] [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-telecom-call-authentification-1.6250599 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-telecom-call-authentif...

rikthevik 4y ago

Another data point from Canada. I've given up answering my phone or checking my voicemail after 10+ calls a week.

pkaye 4y ago

I feel the STIR/SHAKEN changes have made a difference with spam calls for me in the US.

smegger001 4y ago
I don't know, my wife gets spam calls almost daily, but i almost never get spam calls. on the otherhand I almost never actually give anyone my real phone number and just give everyone my Google Voice number instead. Google seems pretty good at detecting and filtering them out. the only people with my real phone number are family members, my employer, and a few friends from high-school that had it from before i signed up for google voice in the 2000s.
- lxgr 4y ago
  Google Voice indeed seems to be much better at spam call detection than anybody else. Most of them don’t even make it to the "spam" folder in the app for me; they must be rejected at some lower level due to very high confidence.

aledalgrande 4y ago

Lucky you, if you have a Vancouver number you'll definitely get calls from the "Chinese immigration department" which wants to get you deported unless you immediately wire $1000. How do I know that if they speak in Mandarin you say? I have great imagination B-)

throwaway019254 4y ago

I live in Vancouver and spam calls significantly dropped for me too. It's only a few calls a week now.