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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Newly re-elected New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was talking to a supporter on his mobile phone when another call came in.

    “I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t take it,” Key told a New Zealand television station.

    Only later did aides tell Key who was trying to reach him: President Obama.

    www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/…/16057707/

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    • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?

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      • WillySpreadum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

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      • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.

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    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.

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      • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It says it right under the headline, no? Or maybe that’s only on the mobile layout or something.

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    • arvere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?

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      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Definitely don’t ghost Obama. He’ll drone strike your house.

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  • Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.

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    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And if they leave a message, I won’t listen to it. Text me instead.

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      • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I actually can’t make or receive phone calls because it’s too stressful and unpleasant, so probably don’t bother x

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      • magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And if they text me, I won’t read it. Just don’t bother.

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      • Killer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can’t leave a message if i don’t set up my voicemail

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      • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My voicemails get transcribed to text, so I can just read them

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    • RecallMadness@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And this is why I asked my provider to turn off voicemail.

      I don’t want to talk to them. Whoever they are.

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that’d be great.

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    • Darkmuch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was called by my own phone number once. Nothing suspicious there.

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      • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Back in my day we used to just talk to ourselves in person.

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      • eerongal@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You missed our, bro. It was you from the future calling to warn you of your dire fate and how to avoid it.

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’ve never taken too many mushrooms and called yourself?

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      • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Heh that happened to me too! Very strange.

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s true but they usually spoof some person I don’t know. So if I google it and it’s some Betty from East Bumfuck, I know not to pick up. Now, if they spoofed someone I know, that’s different.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My phone is good enough at blocking spam calls that when an unfamiliar number calls I answer, and it’s usually a wrong number

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    • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The thing is, there are legit reasons to want to spoof numbers. My use case is that if I'm not reachable via sip I send the call over the normal phone network and set cid to the calling number.

      I guess a middle ground would be that you could spoof numbers to phone numbers you've registered and verified with your provider.

      To be honest though, the scammers and spammers will always find a way round it and spoof anyway.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just make the G Assistant answer it

    9 times out of 10 telling an AI voice who’s calling and why is too hard for even a normal human to figure out so they hang up and now there’s nothing to worry about!

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    • DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How would one do this?

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Move to the US, basically.

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mr google, please add a “find this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I need context first

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    • invertedspear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I want to be able to search the phone numbers in maps. Searching Google sucks because of all the algorithm gaming scam sites. I just want to know if this number is a local business I might actually want to talk to.

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      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Does the USA not have an official phone registry website? Where I live you just go on there and look up any number, person or company you want. It’s basically an online phonebook.

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think hiya does this.

      Samsung phones use their service to identify incoming callers.

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      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ten of the last twelve incoming calls on my phone were scam numbers. I haven’t had the ringer or vibrate turned on for my phone for months so I never notice them. My phone does a pretty good job of blocking them and an outstanding job blocking spam texts

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I work for a phone company, it’s pretty satisfying seeing all the hard work actually be useful for society.

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      • FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Elaborate?

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      • Baylahoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I also want to know more like the previous commenter. Automatic screening that I had with an old pixel phone was the best thing Google ever did for me back with a pixel 3.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you answer and it’s a scam then they know you’ll pick up the phone in the future.

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    • PatMustard@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only if you say something. Pick up, say nothing, if it’s a robot waiting to hear a voice it will hang up, if it’s a real human you’ll get a “hello?”

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  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better yet

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  • Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Holy shit I think a scammer company is using my phone number as a fake employee contact number.

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  • Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the way

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    • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the way

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      • lightrush@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the way

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just answer the phone with the greeting of someone who’s not me.

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is exactly as it should be. I haven’t changed my greeting since I started at my current job so it still says the previous employees name lol. Plus I left my desk phone in my previous cube so I don’t actually have a phone at all.

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      • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mix it up, scammers have an automated system that goes “vwoop” when you say “hello” so I’ll answer as if I’m answering the phone from some fictional business of some sort.

        The scammer will hang up and then call again. wash rinse repeat a few times and then I don’t get any calls on my real phone number from scammers for awhile.

        You know they share information with each other on facebook and other services owned by facebook. So all their scammer groups stay open, but if you say that there were never any WMDs in iraq on facebook, or if you question any official narrative about anything at all on facebook, or do any real journalism through facebook, your entire account will be erased from it.

        meanwhile, scammers have hundreds if not thousands of groups on facebook that exist for the sole purpose of sharing victim’s information with each other for a profit and facebook does absolutely nothing at all to put a stop to that.

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  • unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    meanwhile Truecaller app

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    • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I used to use that for ages, but the constant ads made me uninstall it

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    • cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well I stopped using it as soon as I learned how it works. I even de registered from their website (www.truecaller.com/unlisting)[unlist number] . But yeah I occasionally needs it , for that truecaller bot exist in telegram.

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      • CosmicRaptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        any links for the said bot? I’d like to stop using truecaller myself.

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      • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TIL about the bot, thanks for the mention 👍🏻

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have the maximum AI call screening option on with my Pixel 8. Real people actually tell it who they are, machines and telemarketing pricks hang up immediately upon hearing the AI.

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  • mycathas9lives@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I keep a browser window open exclusively for Googling phone numbers. This is way more common than I realized.

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    • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where do you look up numbers. I only find scam sites

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      • ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just type the number into google. If it doesn’t come up with a number from a business or from something you don’t recognize, just ignore it. Most of the time I just ignore calls, and if it’s important enough, they will leave a voicemail or text me.

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  • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I literally did this the order day because a phone number called twice in 2 days and bypassed my Pixel’s spam filter. All the sites for googling phone numbers are all scams it looks like. Anyone know a good one?

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    • shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The site for googling is google, man.

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  • pommes@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you habe Skype, Doc?

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ich have das Skype jajajaj

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m kind of lucky on this front. I got my phone number when I lived in L.A. and later moved (back) to Indiana. My phone number is a California number. I basically know no one in California at this point who would call me on the phone if they wanted to get in touch. So if the area code isn’t from Indiana, except in special circumstances, it most likely is a call I can ignore.

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    • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have that exact same thing. Almost every spam call sellf identifies as a scam call

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same, but Intelius

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    • woodytrombone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I use SEON and a CNAM database lookup API from Trellix - both free if under 100 requests/mo.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      try fastpeoplesearch.com instead

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  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This looks like Norm Macdonald’s cousin.

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  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have to admit i lean on the Google call screening hard. In the last year or so I have only had one or two actually try talking to Google. They just hang up

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  • Cascio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m never expecting an image from Twin Peaks: The Return. Let alone for something so banal.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why Google it when Android tells you who’s calling?

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    • brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Android doesn’t, I think this is a Pixel feature. Source: my junk ass Samsung

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      • wookiestackhouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Certain Samsung’s have Hiya integration for this kind of thing. In the dialler settings there might be an option for “Caller ID and Spam Protection”.

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  • 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ‘me searching for it online’. Try not to use the G-word

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Without using it, can you tell me why? Is that how g**-gull tracks you online?

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    • force@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what if i don’t use google

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just duck it.

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m good thanks though

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    • TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What, Google?

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  • comfydecal@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    peertube.tv/w/eJ6HoWLKatzgYXRahVm8E6

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