Like email, it’s been mostly ruined by spam and scams. There tends to be a lot more of them than here are genuine phone calls, excluding a few specific uses (like family members who use phone calls for everything).
I’ve had it happen in both Australia and Sweden a bunch. It tends to come in waves, probably because they’ve just managed to get around whatever new anti-spam measures are being added in, or are biding their time with spoofed numbers.
It tends to come once every few months or few weeks, and at its worst, I had one or two every day.
I get about 5-6 a week. It’s worse when I pick up the phone, because I am waiting for a call from a number I might not know. Most recently I was acting as a job reference. Out of 20 calls, 2 were legit. The moment I started answering the phone, the spam calls increased to a few a day (they established I was a real number). The only way I get off these lists is to pretend I am another call center. Then they start to die down back to only a few a week (or whomever is calling from dozens of unknown caller id’s that leave no voice mail or voice mail is the tail end of a recording).
I get 3 or 4 per year. The trick is to not give your phone number to any companies. Those rewards programs at restaurants and stores are selling your info straight to sketchy advertisers and scam call centers.
I used to get 40-50 spam calls a week, that’s when I started screening my calls. Now I can’t due to work, but get very few spam calls these days. It’s ironic.
How are y’all getting so many spam calls? I have a Pixel 6 Pro with AT&T. I rarely if ever get any spam calls. If I do get a call from an unknown number, I have the option on my phone for Google to screen it using an automated system. It asks the caller for the purpose of their call, then transibes it to me in real time to let me decide if I want to answer. The vast majority of these calls end up hanging up without even responding to the Google prompt.
Like email, it’s been mostly ruined by spam and scams. There tends to be a lot more of them than here are genuine phone calls, excluding a few specific uses (like family members who use phone calls for everything).
Where are you guys at that you get so many scammers calling you? I’ve had that happen maybe once in my life.
Same for email by the way. I do get quite a few scam mails, but Gmail at least is very good at detecting them and sending them to the spam folder.
I’ve had it happen in both Australia and Sweden a bunch. It tends to come in waves, probably because they’ve just managed to get around whatever new anti-spam measures are being added in, or are biding their time with spoofed numbers.
It tends to come once every few months or few weeks, and at its worst, I had one or two every day.
I have the same experience in Sweden
I get about 5-6 a week. It’s worse when I pick up the phone, because I am waiting for a call from a number I might not know. Most recently I was acting as a job reference. Out of 20 calls, 2 were legit. The moment I started answering the phone, the spam calls increased to a few a day (they established I was a real number). The only way I get off these lists is to pretend I am another call center. Then they start to die down back to only a few a week (or whomever is calling from dozens of unknown caller id’s that leave no voice mail or voice mail is the tail end of a recording).
I get 3 or 4 per year. The trick is to not give your phone number to any companies. Those rewards programs at restaurants and stores are selling your info straight to sketchy advertisers and scam call centers.
I used to get 40-50 spam calls a week, that’s when I started screening my calls. Now I can’t due to work, but get very few spam calls these days. It’s ironic.
How are y’all getting so many spam calls? I have a Pixel 6 Pro with AT&T. I rarely if ever get any spam calls. If I do get a call from an unknown number, I have the option on my phone for Google to screen it using an automated system. It asks the caller for the purpose of their call, then transibes it to me in real time to let me decide if I want to answer. The vast majority of these calls end up hanging up without even responding to the Google prompt.