Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.
This is the way
Submitted 7 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Skyrmir@lemmy.world 7 months ago
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
And if they leave a message, I won’t listen to it. Text me instead.
casmael@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I actually can’t make or receive phone calls because it’s too stressful and unpleasant, so probably don’t bother x
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 7 months ago
And if they text me, I won’t read it. Just don’t bother.
Killer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can’t leave a message if i don’t set up my voicemail
gregorum@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My voicemails get transcribed to text, so I can just read them
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
And this is why I asked my provider to turn off voicemail.
I don’t want to talk to them. Whoever they are.
Gork@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that’d be great.
Darkmuch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was called by my own phone number once. Nothing suspicious there.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Back in my day we used to just talk to ourselves in person.
eerongal@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
You missed our, bro. It was you from the future calling to warn you of your dire fate and how to avoid it.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
You’ve never taken too many mushrooms and called yourself?
Gork@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Heh that happened to me too! Very strange.
ickplant@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
psud@aussie.zone 7 months 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
r00ty@kbin.life 7 months 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.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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!
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Mr google, please add a “find this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I need context first
invertedspear@lemm.ee 7 months 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.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I think hiya does this.
Samsung phones use their service to identify incoming callers.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 7 months 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
meliaesc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I work for a phone company, it’s pretty satisfying seeing all the hard work actually be useful for society.
FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Elaborate?
Baylahoo@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you answer and it’s a scam then they know you’ll pick up the phone in the future.
PatMustard@feddit.uk 7 months 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?”
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better yet
Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Holy shit I think a scammer company is using my phone number as a fake employee contact number.
Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is the way
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I just answer the phone with the greeting of someone who’s not me.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
unreachable@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I used to use that for ages, but the constant ads made me uninstall it
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
CosmicRaptor@lemm.ee 7 months ago
any links for the said bot? I’d like to stop using truecaller myself.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 months ago
TIL about the bot, thanks for the mention 👍🏻
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months 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.
mycathas9lives@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I keep a browser window open exclusively for Googling phone numbers. This is way more common than I realized.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where do you look up numbers. I only find scam sites
ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 7 months 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?
shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
The site for googling is google, man.
pommes@feddit.de 7 months ago
Do you habe Skype, Doc?
casmael@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ich have das Skype jajajaj
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have that exact same thing. Almost every spam call sellf identifies as a scam call
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Same, but Intelius
woodytrombone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I use SEON and a CNAM database lookup API from Trellix - both free if under 100 requests/mo.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
try fastpeoplesearch.com instead
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This looks like Norm Macdonald’s cousin.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 7 months 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
Cascio@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m never expecting an image from Twin Peaks: The Return. Let alone for something so banal.
Aux@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why Google it when Android tells you who’s calling?
brlemworld@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Android doesn’t, I think this is a Pixel feature. Source: my junk ass Samsung
wookiestackhouse@lemmy.world 7 months 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”.
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 7 months ago
‘me searching for it online’. Try not to use the G-word
Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Without using it, can you tell me why? Is that how g**-gull tracks you online?
meliaesc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m good thanks though
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What, Google?
comfydecal@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/…/16057707/
CptEnder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?
WillySpreadum@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It says it right under the headline, no? Or maybe that’s only on the mobile layout or something.
arvere@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Definitely don’t ghost Obama. He’ll drone strike your house.