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UPDATED: Well... looks like I've l̶o̶s̶t̶ won the battle against scam callers
m k:
Area code, completely overlooked that and assumed the rest.
Here mobile phones have never had area codes, first it was a service provider thing, now it's floating.
At the beginning the whole country had a single code, analog NMT time.
So when USA had area codes we had double zeros and country codes.
Or first long distance indicator here was 9, possibly other 9 for internationals, dial phones so no other signs.
An anecdote, here some still have their original mobile numbers, the number part being 4 or 5 digits.
Cost is also a bit different.
Other anecdote, my number has 7 digits where last 6 are the old landline.
Last 6 must read 3+3 or I can't recognize it.
Whales:
CID is very easy to spoof in Australia. One of my providers has a (very thin) protection against this: you have to receive a call to the number (with a robot reading out a verif code) before you can claim it as one of your CIDs, but after that you can use it on anything you want. Another provider I once dealt with was a bit more cautious, but after I explained to them how this other provider did it they said "ok sure we can do it too then".
Fun fact: I've never gotten a single scam or robo call on my desk phone (NSW 02 number, ~3 years or so) or my SMS-to-email gateway mobile phone (~1year). Somehow I've ended up very lucky. Maybe it's because I also turn them off regularly? Not sure.
exuvo:
I used to get spam calls from many countries but never my own. I now use NoPhoneSpam on android to block every country that is not the one i live in.
You can get it on f-droid or https://gitlab.com/bitfireAT/NoPhoneSpam/ if you want to compile it yourself.
Set the mode to "allow calls only from this list" then add 0* entry for in-country calls (i assume this is a standard?) and +YourCountryCodeHere*. To allow some countries add entries ex +34* for spain.
It also has a setting to allow calls only from contacts but i have not tried that mode.
andy2000:
Something does need to be done about scam/spam calls, but the worst phone problem I ever had when when my number got on a debt collection list. They would often call several times a day looking for some lady I had never heard of. I'd always tell them that they had the wrong number, and to put me on their "do not call list". That would usually stop it for a while, but it would always start up again eventually (presumably after the file got sold onto some other company). I ended up having to change my phone number to make it stop.
SiliconWizard:
I rarely give my phone number to web sites and stuff like that.... except for shipping, carriers often need a phone number.
I've also been getting increasing spam calls. Given who is suppoed to have my number, I can only assume that either carriers or the companies I've given my phone # for shipping reasons to have either sold, or at least leaked, my number.
I suspect a good fraction of these calls also actually come from your phone provider itself, either directly or sold to thid parties. While they should be the ones to protect your number at all costs IMO.
Fuckers.
My current mobile phone has a pretty good detection for suspected spam calls though, it puts them in spam 99% of the time with no false positive so far. But the way it works, it flags suspected spam calls (and SMS), but does not block them (for obvious reasons, it could be wrong), so you still receive them. You can blacklist phone numbers though, but spam calls keep rotating the originating number anyway, so it's a lost cause.
It's gotten so bad that a law has been passed lately for this - so far I'm not sure if it's purely national or on a EU level, I'll have to check. Basically it makes it illegal for companies to make unsollicited calls... not altogether, but just at certain hours (basically evening and night.) What it will trigger is 1/ unsollicited commercial calls will probably increase rather than decrease, but during work hours - yay, and 2/ spam will keep happening at all hours from companies/people that don't care about doing something illegal. :popcorn:
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