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[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

I get the logic. If it's some random ass number and you're stranded with no charger, why waste time on what might be a spam call? That and I don't want one of the last things I hear to be someone talking about car insurance

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

The second time the same number calls back, it becomes a different story.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You haven't met scammers/spam callers local to me. Assholes are persistent.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Weird. Yeah since like 2009 I have almost never seen a spam call come from the same number twice. I'm in the US.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Meanwhile my phone...

Not pictured the 4 other calls at the same exact time.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The same number always calls you? It's typically a new number every time for my spam calls.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

It is both a new number every half hour or so, but the same number in a row. Once they call me between 2 and 20 times. They change numbers

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They always use the same zip code though which I appreciate.

I no longer live where I got my first cellphone and I am okay not talking to anyone who still lives there. Makes it easy to ignore.

[-] zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I've been getting the same thing! Usually in the morning, too. It's very annoying. Glad to know I'm not alone, at least?

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Weird. The numbers look american. Is that true?

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

You can call from anywhere and the world and declare your 'Phone Number' to be whatever you want. It's an absolute joke.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Same. It makes blocking the numbers pointless.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Ah, Canadian here

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I never get these calls. My secret? I never give my phone number out to anyone except hospitals and other health related professions.

When I gave out my number I got them all the time.

[-] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

There are local prefixes I will never answer no matter what. I'm looking at you, 243 and 422.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I would've put my phone on power saving mode if I was stranded. It's good for 2 or 3 days. That's without a battery bank or solar panel I would've had in my pack.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Because you can probably recognise a spam call in less than 20 seconds

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