Why are Robocalls so common in the US, but not in other countries?
Because unsolicited calls are not legal in other countries
Calling a real estate robocaller back
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#13Why are Robocalls so common in the US, but not in other countries?
Here in the UK they died out about 20 years ago when our Data Protection Act came in to force and stated companies could only call people who had given them prior permission. Calls still happen (either illegally from UK companies or from overseas companies to whom the UK law doesn't apply) but they're much less common.
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#14Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone is keeping track of the various numbers that are used in a list, and using that to alter the carrier ID information to our benefit.
It doesn't catch all, but it hasn't incorrectly flagged one yet.
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#15Why are Robocalls so common in the US, but not in other countries?
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#16“Will” doesn’t want to buy your house. Will wants to collect the lead, determine how appealing the property is, and sell the lead to someone local. Will isn’t touching that property with a 10 foot pole. Phil on the other hand, just bought the lead and will make a lowball offer.
Oh, and "Will" on the voicemail isn't Will either. It's a voice actor off of Fiverr that likely has no idea their voice is being used for this scheme.
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#18Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone is keeping track of the various numbers that are used in a list, and using that to alter the carrier ID information to our benefit. It doesn't catch all, but it hasn't incorrectly flagged one yet.
Google does on my phone. Sometimes it will ask me after a call if it was spam.
Works surprisingly well considering it is Google in 2019, but now that I think of it I can see a number of ways they'll mess up this as well ;-)
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#19Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone is keeping track of the various numbers that are used in a list, and using that to alter the carrier ID information to our benefit. It doesn't catch all, but it hasn't incorrectly flagged one yet.
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#20Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone is keeping track of the various numbers that are used in a list, and using that to alter the carrier ID information to our benefit. It doesn't catch all, but it hasn't incorrectly flagged one yet.
Google does on my phone. Sometimes it will ask me after a call if it was spam. Works surprisingly well considering it is Google in 2019, but now that I think of it I can see a number of ways they'll mess up this as well ;-)
I use Google's Call Screen service. It answers the call and tells the caller to state their name and reason for calling. The response shows up on my screen as text and I can decide to pick up at any time.
99% of the time, the call just disconnects.
I really wish Google would let me set my phone to ring only for numbers in my address book and give everybody else a busy signal.