• Robocalls on the Rise
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I've gotten a few of those but my phone gave me a massive red warning "THIS IS A REPORTED SPAM NUMBER" while ringing each time, so I was prepared to hang up and block immediately.
i got one that appeared as my own phone number once, which was unsettling
Any good way to track down these robocalls down to a physical address. I know they'll spoof numbers (And probably VPN whatever original dialer), but I want to do more than just block the numbers. Like smash some computers. Especially if they start spoofing #s that I know in my contacts list. I remember DEFCON 22 having some way to do more.
Just so you know, those are bots making the call to see if your number is active, if it is, you get stuck on the harass forever list. Welcome to hell.
Haha, and googles latest AI will make this even worse.
They used my numbers once. I got about 30 calls in one day from people calling my number back telling me to fuck off. Got some good voicemails.
I mostly just get robocalls. I used to get a lot of live calls, too....Till I started telling them to fuck off. I get robocalls from out of state and instate, usually, I figure the out of state ones are spammers. I end up answering the instate one because my cell phone is the only phone I have and I'll get calls from doctor's offices. The ones I really hate are the ones that ring once and hang up.
I solved this problem accidentally by being to lazy to switch my Pheonix area code to a Minnesota one. If someone calls from my area code, and it's not in my phone already, bam, easy.
I get these constantly, but not only do they spoof my area code, but they're also using the first three numbers of my actual phone number too. And I'm searching for a job too so it sucks. What I do is change my voicemail greeting to ask any potential callers to leave me a message in the form of a voicemail or a text. But if you're really desperate, I'd get a Google Voice number and start putting that on job applications and your resume.
These days, I just ignore unfamiliar callers, and wait for them to leave a voicemail. Anyone who has any business over the phone with me will do so. It's gotten ridiculous these days, though. Some of them are calling at downright rude hours. It's almost become muscle memory to mash the lock button on my phone to hang the bastards up the second they dare interrupt my day. I once hung up my friend 3 times in a row before remembering that they would be calling me from a different phone.
I had one this morning, woke me out of a deep sleep. I answered, heard a lady asking for my name because I'm eligible for an insurance upgrade, in the most groggy voice said "...no" and hung up. They call my parents business all the time, they always ask for my grandmother (the original owner) but she passed away 8 years ago. My mom would come up with creative answers like saying she's not in or would redirect them to the cemetery number. Eventually she just bought an air horn and blasts it into the receiver at the first sign of scam. I have infinite patience so I love to waste their time, they ask if I'm in any position to do financial or business decisions and I always spit a "Oh I'm just a lowly employee I just work here." Shtick. Then I tell them the owners never in and they only come in at the crack of dawn, way before we actually open. My favorites is one telling me to upgrade to a credit card plan and when the bot asked my age I jokingly said 16, a few seconds of silence and suddenly hung up on me
I currently work in a cellphone store and every single phone we have on display is active and can make and receive calls. The ammount of robo calls they get are fucking ridiculous that when we put a new one out we turn on do not disturb so it doesn't make any noise. I sometimes like to awnser them when the store is dead and just fuck about. I got one about winning some vacation package and it was an actual person on the other end of the line. I kept that poor girl, who was on her first week of work, on the phone for 45 minutes talking about how I was banned from carnival Cruise line because apparently it wasn't proper etiquette to rip a line of coke at the dinner table. Or how I had totaled a rental can because of some biohazard issue from a couple of chicks I picked up in Vegas. When it was time for me to give her my credit card information I had one of my female co workers come over and start an "argument" with me about who this bitch was I was talking to. It's probably become my favorite pass time and I am definitely going to miss it when I change jobs.
I get a lot of calls from someone pretending to be the Chinese Consulate. They leave voice messages in Mandarin.
I get calls pretty frequently from these numbers spoofing numbers similar to my own, as in area code and first 3 digits, presumably to try and trick me into thinking it's a family member calling. I'm guessing I'm not the only one whose immediate family mostly have the same first 3 digits.
Can confirm. Have been receiving loads of robocalls in the last few months, almost all of the with spoofed numbers. Most of them are automatic messages, but the last time I got an actual person on the line (publishers clearing house scam), I played along for a minute so I could tell him to go fuck himself.
I have never ever ever gotten one. Maybe because I am in Germany?
I actually just got one.
Its like a virulent disease, pretty soon you'll join the club of people being harassed through voicemail about "overdue taxes" and threats of "being taken in to custody by the local cops" by a text to speech device.
Hell yeah, I keep getting voicemail messages about the latter.
I set mine to block any numbers not in my contacts. If somebody needs to contact me, they either have to give me a number to add to my contacts or e-mail me. Also, get the Should I Answer? app from the Play Store.
all the ones i got were just "hey this is [cheerful female name] from the warranty department" got to the point where i got a few that were fairly close to my relative's phone numbers which honestly just got a little weird.
From what I could tell when I had a conversation with the FCC about the issue I had above, they said there is nothing anyone can do about it right now from their end.
Just got an IRS "tax fraud case" call why does this shit exist, fuck off
If you fire rapidly and at enough people eventually a couple will fall for it
Just had one from texas, they left a voicemail that was completely in mandarin?????
I got called by MY OWN NUMBER a bunch of times. I didn't bother to answer though, but still it's fucking weird.
what if it was future you calling you to warn yourself of something? 🤔
On a related note, I've been getting a lot of texts from scammers lately because I'm trying to sell a car (they say that they are out of town and that they will send a check and have their "handler" pick the car up.) And I'm always tempted to troll them back but I'm afraid I'll get more spam if I reply. I also got a voicemali recently that sounded like it was edited together from different pieces, especially because they fucked up and gave me two different numbers to call back.
Ever since I first got a phone, I made a habit of not answering numbers that weren't in my contacts. Would this be considered a mistake back then or what?
Unfortunately, they can straight up spoof ANY phone number to get around any and all built-in or app store call blockers. It's related to how phone metadata is used for caller ID. The current system allows any caller to send metadata from an entirely different number to trick caller ID systems. There's some stuff going on in the FCC to set a new standard for caller ID metadata transmission that makes it impossible to spoof phone numbers like that, but I don't have a clue how long it will take for them to finalize it. Best thing to do now is let any unexpected calls to go to voicemail, and to change your voicemail greeting to explain why you never answer first.
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