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I love how spammers do that- it works out great for me. I no longer live in my phones area code. I block the entire area code, which catches a huge amount of sp

by dmd 1y ago

I love how spammers do that- it works out great for me. I no longer live in my phones area code. I block the entire area code, which catches a huge amount of spam calls.

IG_Semmelweiss 1y ago
this is a required hack, for any founder SO much value in being able to root out garbage sales calls
- esseph 1y ago
  You don't even need to be a founder, just a person in a position that people may believe is responsible for buying products and signing checks at a company.
  - brookst 1y ago
    With marginal cost of spam being $0, I am pretty sure homeless people and Bill Gates get exactly the same amount of spam. I’d be surprised if there was any target selection.
    - esseph 1y ago
      LinkedIn scraping is rampant.
      - dmd 1y ago
        It really is. I don't have my phone number on there, obviously, but when I went from being a random code monkey to having a 'Director' title at a very large institution, my sales spam went from 0 to probably 50 pieces a day.
- trod1234 1y ago
  Also need to do something about the inherent insecurity of most phones. GrapheneOS being a pretty decent solution nowadays to control those errant radio signals won't help against profiling for your next oil change/maintenance with those TPMS sensors beaconing everywhere you go.
slumberlust 1y ago
Same. The only downside is local contractors will also screen you, but most call me back when I leave a message insisting I'm local and give my address.