if it was important they'd leave a vm, ya'know?
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If they don't leave a VM, I assume they really want to sell me something.
I havent had my voicemail set up in 10 years
Is VM a thing yet? I have never get any VM in my life, oh, but spam calls, for sure, props to Yet Another Call Blocker.
My carrier doesn't have voicemail.
This is one step more than I do: If someone calls me there is a 99% chance it's spam so I never answer. If they do not leave a voicemail, I am 100% not calling them back.
If I don't get a text or voice-mail right after the missed call, that's how I know it was a scammer. If someone really wants to contact me they'll try option B
One time I got 3 calls over the course of two days from a number my phone identified as "Scam Likely" and then a text from my friend saying "I put you down as a reference for a job at the Department of Defense can you call them back?"
this happened to me with a doctor's office I had an appointment with... missed the appointment😆
I googled one once after it left an obvious scam voicemail which led me to the virtual phone number providers site. I looked at reporting it on the FCCs website, but reporting there is a PIA. You have to fill out a big form to create a report. The virtual number providers site had it's own report page which took 2 seconds to fill out. Later that day I got an email saying they take it seriously, it's a Google voice number or something and they're opening an investigation. The next day I get an email saying they concluded their investigation and the number was disconnected and the account terminated. It was kinda satisfying, though I doubt it impacted the scammer much.
Surely this person "Scam Likely" has some very important info for me
Is there any legit phone number look up sites? Pretty much all Google and Bing results are just spam.
I book marked this site from a suggestion elsewhere on the fediverse, https://free-lookup.net/
Just tried it. Those fake loading bars aren't a great sign it's legit, and there was no info beyond what the area code would've already told me once it was done with the example number I tried.
Well damn. I only found it a little while ago and weirdly have had a lack of unknown calls for a couple days. Thanks for checking for us.
I don't know where my number got sold in a list but I get like 2 calls a day and they are trying to sell me crypto. Thick indian accent guy calling from a singapore number: "Good Afternoon Sir I'm (American common name) and I want to talk to you about great investment opportunities. Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" and I'm like dude I used to mine bitcoin when it was like 1usd and deleted my wallet knowing it worth nothing and is a waste of time don't tell me what a good investment is.
I never answer the phone if i don't know the number between 16:30 and 18:00, its always the Chinese embassy telling... well I don't know, I don't speak the language.
Its hard to answer a call nowadays knowing the voice record bs. its like ok don't want to say yes or my name or really anything that would be assent or acknowledgement and maybe the reverse and not sure about hello. bueller.....bueller...