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I've been pretty successful at reducing spam calls by simply reporting the calls to the USA's donotcall registry LINK HERE and also pretending to be a robot trying to take up as much of the scammer's time as possible.
Of course the BEST defence is to have a company find and remove your number from online as much as possible, but that's trickier for businesses.
since STIR/SHAKEN rolled out, the scam and robocalls here have really dropped off. only a few per week now.. even to the phone numbers that are published (intentionally) online.
of the ones that get through, nearly all of them are coming through new voip points-of-presence popping-up in small towns all over our very rural part of the country.
I'm still getting about 5-10 per day. They're all spoofed numbers with different area codes and the same or similar AI recorded voice lines.
I'll answer almost every call I can, but not say anything. I've learned that they wait for an answer before starting their shpeel, so if I answer and remain quiet, they hang up thinking I'm another bot. Then I block the number to be safe.
i do that too. if it's from a number i'm gonna answer (but don't recognize), i do. and then watch the call timer on the phone and don't say anything until after three seconds. legit callers are always still there, the computers--never are.
if a call rings through that the phone company has tagged in caller id as probably bogus. i just answer and hang-up right away. they don't call back.
You gotta at least start with your most white-person "hello" possible. If its a human they might just assume silence means the call was dropped.
Ugh, my dumbass boomer father.
Okay. 1. My father goes by his middle name. Let's pretend his name is Christopher James Smith. He introduces himself as Jim. For my entire life, it's been easy to screen calls for him because "Hello, may I speak to...Christopher Smith please?" That's spam. "Hey is Jim there?" That's someone who knows him.
Don't participate in contests where you get a code, and you have to go to a site to verify that code and give your data. They'll sell that phone number immediately to telemarketers.
theyre even doing it through sms more
This is the way.
From what I understand there seem to be some sort of lists that mention activity of any given number based on whether you answered a call so I literally never answer if I don't know the number and now I rarely get a spam call. Like maybe 4-5 times in a year. My number is probably flagged as inactive or something on these lists.
Unfortunately, some of us have to. I need my (and my bosses) phone number on danger / caution tape so people can ask me why its there & if can they ignore it.
Ah, that explains those roving gangs of overseas scammers and their cross-country caution tape tourism excursions
Anecdotal, but several people I know who used to get loads of spam calls noticed a very significant and lasting decline in frequency after signing up for https://www.easyoptouts.com/. Seems like a good thing to do anyway, might be worth trying if you struggle with this.