• sep@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    How is spam calls such a problem? Have probably had 2 cold calls the last 10 years. In norway you register on a goverment do-not-cold-call list and basically I have not gotten sales calls since.

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      6 hours ago

      I get about 10-15 spam calls a day, but I do have two business lines forwarded to my personal phone too. If I do answer a call from a number I don’t know because I’m expecting a call, and it turns out to be spam I just hang up immediately.

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      13 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the scammers used my country’s do-not-call list as a list of known live numbers to call. Because no one’s enforcing it and you don’t really know who’s calling with the number is spoofed.

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      11 hours ago

      Unfortunately I’ve heard the list is not well-enforced, so the do-not-call list functions more as a list of confirmed working numbers with humans on the other end. That’s why I’ve never tried using it…

      I get probably 5 spam calls a week so if that keeps growing, I might have to give it a try…

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Sadly, I live in the USA and do not have a functioning government. We can’t get health care, let alone reliable span call blocking.