• exohuman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    How many of you have received these calls? I got a ton of them along with my husband and siblings.

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        1 year ago

        Spam callers have basically ruined telephone as a medium. For many, a phone call is more likely to be fake and spam than it is to be legitimate. And even if the call claims to come from a source you might trust, good odds it’s spoofed and thus cannot in fact be trusted.

        A shame on telecoms for not being willing to tackle the problem.

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          1 year ago

          Both email and the telephone have been ruined by spam for me. The inbox has become an unwieldy, inefficient mess.

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            1 year ago

            I’m even getting Google Drive spam now. Complete randos “sharing files” with me. There’s no way to prevent it.

          • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            At least email has some tools to help mitigate the issue, like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. They aren’t perfect, but they are loads better than telephony.

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                1 year ago

                I’ve never gotten that to work. Did Gmail remove the ability to do it? I’m probably just dumb.

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                  1 year ago

                  It should still work. It’s become kind of a common pattern. I’ve found it works in Proton Mail too which is nice.

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        1 year ago

        On my iPhone, I have it set to silence all unknown calls. I still get a notification a call was silenced and they can leave a voicemail if they want to.

        It really sucks like earlier this week when I was expecting a call from a lawyer and missed it because I didn’t have their number already in my contacts. Or when job hunting or whatever.

        But it’s been really nice not to get dumbass calls that are strictly spam.

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          1 year ago

          Job hunting is the worst. I have to answer every single call for a while knowing full well it’s probably a telemarketer but not having any other choice.

    • fatboy93@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’ve started forwarding the calls to Google voice or if i accidentally pick the call, i use bixby’s auto answer.

      Either eay the call drops in a hot second.