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Post by agotterer »

shereadsthenews wrote: post #5

I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages. Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.

Over the past 6 months the number of robocalls to my mobile number has increased from 1 or 2 a week to at least 5+ a day. I’ve also just stopped answering numbers I don’t recognize.m, which isn’t always ideal because I miss legitimate calls now. I actually just send it immediately to voicemail. Most of the time my voicemail box is full because it’s filled with junk I don’t bother clearing out.

Ive contemplated changing my number. But I imagine that won’t actually help. Is this just the new reality? Are there any solutions?

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by discreditable »

copperx wrote: post #81
khazhoux wrote: post #64

Similarly, I don't understand why people answer the front door when they can hear or see (through peephole or Ring) that it's a stranger. I don't need your magazines, your house-painting services, your church, or whatever else. If you're lost and looking for your friend's house you're supposed to be at, sorry I'm not gonna be able to help you anyway.

Sometimes a neighbor you haven't met is the one ringing the doorbell. I recently had to leave my car parked in front of a stranger's house, so I rang the doorbell to let them know, but they didn't answer even though they were clearly home. Capitalism might be great and all, but door-to-door marketing and phone spamming have killed reasonable methods of communication. I refuse to let these things die, so I still open…

I've given them the "I'm not interested" line. They always still try to make their sale despite me repeating it. The worst ones are the guys going around trying to sell steaks or to look at your power bill to "save you money". There are also people around here that will give you a sob story about why they need the money to mow your lawn. I've lived in a few neighborhoods around here and it's always the same. If I want you over you probably can text me, so I just ignore the door.

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

shereadsthenews wrote: post #5

I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages. Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.

I only answer the phone if the call is from someone on my contact list.

My phone is in Do Not Disturb mode 100% of the time, with only alarms and priority calls whitelisted, so I know that if a call comes through, it's probably important.

Everyone else can send a message or record a voicemail. I'll call or write back when I feel like it. I have also taken the step of disabling all notifications except for direct messages to me. Those get to pop an icon in the notification bar, but no sound nor vibration alerts. I'll see the message whenever I decide to check my phone.

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by wongarsu »

LeonM wrote: post #146
nightcracker wrote: post #90

I'm from europe (the Netherlands). Everytime I see these american robocall threads it blows my mind. What about your system is so bad that allows this to go on? It's not a problem here at all.

Might also be because the Netherlands is a small and relatively expensive country in Europe where international rates are quite high. So, it's not compelling enough for them to open an call center in NL, and placing it outside of NL would increase their phone costs. Also, not many people on the planet speak dutch, so the addressable market is quite small.

Germany is very big (4th largest economy in the world) and we have no problems with robocalls at all. I don't think I've ever experienced a robocall.

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by mbreese »

goodcanadian wrote: post #138
shereadsthenews wrote: post #5

I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages. Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.

Put your number on the National do not call registry. It doesn't stop all calls, but in my experience, it greatly reduces them.

This isn’t the case anymore. There is currently no real enforcement mechanism in place for the registry, so even a number on the registry will get many robo calls a day now.

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by mr__y »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #116
martin_a wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where in Europe are you? I'm in Germany and I'd say I get one call a month from somebody who wants to do a survey or something like that. And I also might get one spam SMS per month which I report to the "Bundesnetzagentur", which will then take care of that as this is prohibited in Germany.

Poland. I regularly get a survey call and "congratulations, you won a vacuum cleaner/spa/whatever" call roughly once a month. From time to time, I get some company I'm technically in business with call me (through an outsourced call centre), trying to upsell something useless. I used to get a lot more of calls like these a couple years ago, but I vaguely recall something in the legislation having changed since then,…

> I vaguely recall something in the legislation having changed since then

There actually was a change in Polish legislation - Telecommunications Act 172.1 (Ustawa Prawo Telekomunikacyjne art. 172 par. 1)

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by anonu »

From the website:

How to avoid this scam: Don't answer or return any calls from numbers you don't recognize.

If the FCC is recommending we don't pick up our phones, isn't something really wrong with the system?

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by Moru »

alias_neo wrote: post #117
maccard wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do t disagree with you that answerinf your phone can be necessary, but most of your examples are cases where you are expecting a call - except your doctor/dentist. Why are they calling you and not you calling them to make appointments? Semo-related but it's infuriating how many companies refuse to contact you by email. I'm currently remortgaging a flat, and I've told the broker repeatedly to contact me by email, an…

The broker thing has happened the same way with me, the last two times I've done so. I'm starting to believe they don't want certain things in black and white so they would rather call you. It could just be policy though, who's to say. I do still find it irritating that they insist. I'm much more likely to respond to an email quickly than to a phone call and I only answer phone calls from my family while I'm at work.

It also has to do with personality type. A sales type person is more likely a people's person that has more control over a voice communication than a typing conversation. They want to be able to directly counter your indecisiveness to land the sale, they can't do that in an email

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Post by wazoox »

nightcracker wrote: post #90

I'm from europe (the Netherlands). Everytime I see these american robocall threads it blows my mind. What about your system is so bad that allows this to go on? It's not a problem here at all.

Here in France I receive these sort of calls from Tunisia quite regularly. Plus some guys declared as SPAM by the truecaller App I'm using precisely for this purpose (usually telemarketers trying to sell pay TV, insurances or some other crap I don't want). I'd say it makes for about 30% of all the incoming calls.

Therefore I don't reply to unknown or hidden numbers.

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Post by mruts »

gambiting wrote: post #127
mattkrause wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get--and keep--a job? Have friends? Make medical appointments? Order pizza?

For the last one - meteoric rise of services like JustEat meant that I haven't had to ring anyone to order food for at least 8 years now. If your restaurant is not on justeat/Uber eats/you have your own website that allows ordering, then I'm not interested in ordering from you. Also, if you order through a phone how do you pay? In cash??

I don’t understand? Is paying with cash a problem?
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