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Reading the comments I'm still amazed by how big of a problem robocalls are in the US.
Here in the EU I've had around 4 unsolicited calls in 20 years. Why is it a problem there and not here?
Because America is a third world country with shiny veneers
The roads, the bridges, the healthcare system, the airports, the rail system, the ports, the housing system, the education system, people of color, any minorities, the electoral system, the unions, the job market, the credit rating, and any government department that isn't military would disagree with that assessment. Only thing shiny in the US is the military and the police.
It just outright is a third would country and has the obsession with state sanctioned killing to prove it.
It's actually pretty big problem in Spain. I have to keep blocking spam numbers. I think it's the same in Poland. EU is not regulating this, it's up to individual governments and some are not handling it well.
We have a government agency the FCC that's fucking worthless because it's full of people who get money from big telecom companies.
Don't you know that you're not free? You'd only be free if something like this went unpunished/s
In US here. I do not remember last time I heard a robocall. A years ago? I did get one robocall message couple months back though.
@MxM111 @hedge @maynarkh I still get some robocalls, if they leave a message. Most people don't answer their phones if the calling number is not in their contacts list, so that has put a damper on the robocalls effectiveness. It also puts a damper on the effectiveness of political polling.
What's the point of answering the phone nowadays?
Here in the UK, I get one a year. I used to get more, but then I answered a couple and was deliberately obstinate in a way that seems to have gotten me added to a blacklist.
"No, you called me, so you have to prove that you are who you say you are. We'll start with your company registration number, registered office, and FCA registration number." No threats or profanity or abuse, just firm demands that they prove their identity. They always hang up, stop calling, and tell their fellow scammers not to bother with me.
I definitely don't trust the government to regulate properly, but I do trust the scammers to recognise that pestering me wastes their time and gets them nothing. While it may seem like the 2-3 minutes per year spent stubbornly refusing to give any personal information until I've done "due diligence checks" is a waste of my time, I consider it an investment, since I don't have to deal with any calls in the future.
I stopped getting robocalls after I did the ole' trick where you stick your phone under a metal pot and then hit it with a wooden spoon
On the landline I got them all the time when I still had one, to the point that I wouldn't answer if it wasn't local. On the cellphone I had like 5 in the last 5 years