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| UPDATED: Well... looks like I've l̶o̶s̶t̶ won the battle against scam callers |
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| coromonadalix:
i receive daily at least 10 falses sms, and around 50 a week in emails, so tired of this crap emails rules, no avail, they play with wording, or text icons etc .... i can report some of them but .... and yes older android versions where doing a better job at blocking a few things, google managed to break some functionality and now blocking a few things is harder than before abd finally i lost this battle loll |
| Halcyon:
Email for me is not really a big deal. I rarely get spam in my private email (maybe a few per year). Google's filtering does a pretty awesome job, but then again, I also never give out my primary address. For stuff like Linkedin, I use aliases which I recreate every so often to avoid all the "professional spam" you can't opt-out of. They'll just get a bounced email when the address changes. At work is a different story and the Spam Act (unfortunately) largely doesn't apply. I've got to the point now that I've created mail flow rules, so if you send me unsolicited marketing email (that's clearly just scraping my information from a variety of sources), I'll block their entire domain from contacting anyone in our organisation, permanently. Businesses need to realise that this mass-mailing largely doesn't work, and I have absolutely zero interest in doing business with a company that engages in that shit. If I want their services, I'll reach out to them, not the other way around. |
| johnh:
I asked my home answering service (SWMBO) as it her mother that normally calls our landline. MIL is suffering from Dementia. Side note: she called us 3 time on Christmas day, to wish us happy Christmas. She said we haven't had a span call on the landline for months. She said she has had one dodgy call on her mobile, robo voice saying they were from bank xyz about our mortgage, which we don't bank with and one dodgy sms in last couple of weeks. Much better than a few years back. When every call was about your Internet service was faulty, NBN migration, NBN service problems the list goes on |
| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: johnh on January 24, 2024, 06:48:23 am ---When every call was about your Internet service was faulty, NBN migration, NBN service problems the list goes on --- End quote --- To be fair, if you're on NBN FTTN or HFC, there is a very high chance that your connection is faulty. ;) |
| Whales:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 24, 2024, 06:31:52 am ---At work is a different story and the Spam Act (unfortunately) largely doesn't apply. --- End quote --- ! My shared home phone was once the number for a business my parents ran. Perhaps that's the difference? |
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