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Set your phone to silence unknown callers. Completely eliminated the issue for me, along with any other random goofball trying to call me.
I find that a majority of our incoming calls are scams. Surprised that Google/Apple haven’t fixed this at the behest of the government.
I have a convenient heuristic which I imagine is quite common. I have a cell phone with an area code from where I purchased it, but I have since moved, so all my local calls come from a different area code. Calls from my area code of residence are almost never spam, while calls from any other area code, and especially my phone's area code, are almost always spam.
Set your phone to silence unknown callers. Completely eliminated the issue for me, along with any other random goofball trying to call me.
Which at least I think is a grave mistake.
You might argue that you barely use the phone as a phone, and that might have been a good argument if there was anything remotely equivalent.
Rather than "caused by illegal Indian call centres in 2022", wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Indian industrial-scale criminal scam operations"?
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Also caused me to completely miss an appliance delivery because the driver called me from his personal cell, I forgot I had "unknown callers" filtered, and he gave up when he couldn't reach me. Even though I get way more spam calls than legitimate calls, I realized that fully half of the legitimate calls I get are from numbers not in my contacts: delivery drivers, doctors offices, restaurants confirming reservations,…
I just accept the collateral damage of never answering calls. Traditional telephone service is dead to anyone under 40.
Worth the occasional missed call IMO; I say on my VM msg if you are calling me and I don't know you leave a message otherwise your call will go to VM without ringing.
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Also caused me to completely miss an appliance delivery because the driver called me from his personal cell, I forgot I had "unknown callers" filtered, and he gave up when he couldn't reach me. Even though I get way more spam calls than legitimate calls, I realized that fully half of the legitimate calls I get are from numbers not in my contacts: delivery drivers, doctors offices, restaurants confirming reservations,…
It's a delivery. Couldn't he have knocked on your door?
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Also caused me to completely miss an appliance delivery because the driver called me from his personal cell, I forgot I had "unknown callers" filtered, and he gave up when he couldn't reach me. Even though I get way more spam calls than legitimate calls, I realized that fully half of the legitimate calls I get are from numbers not in my contacts: delivery drivers, doctors offices, restaurants confirming reservations,…
It's a delivery. Couldn't he have knocked on your door?
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I believe both Android and iOS support SHAKEN/STIR, as long as your carrier supports it. On my phone, at least, I see Caller IDs tagged with "likely spam" if a check fails.
Both Google Fi and T Mobile used to show up likely spam calls regularly and accurately, but sadly the only network with decent coverage where I live is AT&T, which does exactly as good a job of this as you’d expect AT&T to do.
I wonder if this is a rollout thing -- I had AT&T for years, and towards the end (about a year ago) I began receiving spam notices. But I was in one of their "primary" markets, so it's possible they rolled it out first here.