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You do get the occasional one in the UK. I get one every 2-4 weeks I'd estimate. I imagine part of the reason it's not a bigger problem in Europe is not a lot
by mattmanser 3y ago
You do get the occasional one in the UK. I get one every 2-4 weeks I'd estimate.
I imagine part of the reason it's not a bigger problem in Europe is not a lot of people speak Dutch/German/etc. in the countries where these scammers are often calling from. They all speak English though.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoAmerican spam calls include clearly midwestern dialect (chicago, st louis, with a big distance span from there) prerecorded nonsense stories presumably by an unwitting voice actor. I imagine that voice actors in German would be less useful because answering often yields a clearly non North American accent person clearly complicit in whatever scam is being attempted
- robnado 3y agoMy goto is to speak a non-english language that most people where I live should know. If they don't understand, I hang up. It's a very simple heuristic that allows me to answer important calls while filtering out 99% of scammers.
- Scoundreller 3y agoFrance had quite a few spam calls for a while. They got the (en francais) "This is DHL calling and we have a package for you" from a real person... There are a lot of French speakers in the world in poor economic conditions. Probably proportionately more than English. But it's still not as bad as English calls in North America. (In Canada, I just respond in broken French to these calls, any official call would be able to transfer me to a French speaking (and 99.9% certainly bilingual attendant)).