Ordered some stuff online from Merrell, two days later, order cancelled because I didn’t pick up the phone to verify an order which I had already gone through two different sets of two-factor identification to complete. No worries, upon considering redoing the order, it was too much money anyway. Thanks for saving me a buck, Merrell!
Missed call
Submitted 3 weeks ago by restingOface@quokk.au to [deleted]
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Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What’s Merrell?
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shoes. I like their shoes.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
I’ve been pretty successful at reducing spam calls by simply reporting the calls to the USA’s donotcall registry LINK HERE and also pretending to be a robot trying to take up as much of the scammer’s time as possible.
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
since STIR/SHAKEN rolled out, the scam and robocalls here have really dropped off. only a few per week now… even to the phone numbers that are published (intentionally) online.
of the ones that get through, nearly all of them are coming through new voip points-of-presence popping-up in small towns all over our very rural part of the country.
PineRune@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m still getting about 5-10 per day. They’re all spoofed numbers with different area codes and the same or similar AI recorded voice lines.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ll answer almost every call I can, but not say anything. I’ve learned that they wait for an answer before starting their shpeel, so if I answer and remain quiet, they hang up thinking I’m another bot. Then I block the number to be safe.
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
i do that too. if it’s from a number i’m gonna answer, i do. and then watch the call timer on the phone and don’t say anything until after three seconds. legit callers are always still there, the computers–never are.
if a call rings through that the phone company has tagged in caller id as probably bogus. i just answer and hang-up right away. they don’t call back.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
You gotta at least start with your most white-person “hello” possible. If its a human they might just assume silence means the call was dropped.
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Call screening features are great. iPhones recently added a call screener that pre-answers the call to ask who is calling. I know at least Pixels have had it for a while.
Pascaloi@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Funny thing about that though is that it asks the caller to say their name but many of the spam caller just say my name, so now my iPhone says maybe: my name as the caller.
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
To me, that’s a flag that the caller isn’t worth my time. More often than not if they refuse to identify themselves, they’re not actually legit, so the mechanism still works.
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The main reason I ended up with another Pixel phone was for the spam filtering. A couple calls a day go straight to the automated answering service (where I can see the speach-to-text response of the caller on the screen) or get blocked completely. Text messages typically come through, but they’re less annoying, and I can add them to a spam list.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
95% sounds a little low.
Tiral@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
She doesn’t get it, she owes the IRS money! All they need are Apple gift cards to clear it up /s
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t answer anything that isn’t identified and that I recognize. If they leave a message I will check it. It’s a pain that so many in the medical and service industries use unidentified numbers forcing telephone tag and they don’t use email or text only phone calls.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t participate in contests where you get a code, and you have to go to a site to verify that code and give your data. They’ll sell that phone number immediately to telemarketers.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My phone is on silent and mostly ignored now. I hate it
Asafum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the way.
From what I understand there seem to be some sort of lists that mention activity of any given number based on whether you answered a call so I literally never answer if I don’t know the number and now I rarely get a spam call. Like maybe 4-5 times in a year. My number is probably flagged as inactive or something on these lists.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
fuck the mobile system
sms, phone calls, sim cards, mobile data system
sms is way less feature complete and structurally good than options like Signal, Fluxer, and Matrix
same with phone calls
sim cards and esims are crap and could be replaced with accounts or Privacy Pass style anonymous keys
mobile data system is overcomplicated and has no reason not to just be an isp that offers mobile datarumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
God that’s how i feel about email at work. 99% of the inbound shit is trash, that 1% is my ultimate duty though.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah but my company thinks that’s still the best way to announce everything so I miss stuff all the time lol
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
theyre even doing it through sms more
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anecdotal, but several people I know who used to get loads of spam calls noticed a very significant and lasting decline in frequency after signing up for www.easyoptouts.com. Seems like a good thing to do anyway, might be worth trying if you struggle with this.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There’s also donotcall.gov that is for free.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
There’s also donotcall.gov that is for free.
LOL. This has literally never worked.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How are people getting so many spam calls? I’ve gotten maybe 2 in the last 5 years. Not that I want spam calls but people consistently reporting getting several a week, or even day, makes me concerned I’ve done something wrong. Like some government system I’m supposed to be signed up to but I’ve somehow missed
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
Some mobile networks have spam protection that’s enabled automatically.
You could also have a “clean” number, especially if you don’t use your phone number anywhere haven’t answered a spam call before, and nobody used it before you (or the previous user was a long time ago).
Spam callers can’t robodial literally every number, so they rely on lists of phone numbers that are known to be good/active, for example if they’ve answered a spam call before, if the number has been in a data leak, etc.
toynbee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t know if this is still accurate, but I have a friend who used to answer calls from unknown numbers with “hello, this is First name Lastname.”
I don’t even answer calls from unknown numbers. His approach boggled my mind, in part because of what you just said.
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I get them because I was jobless for six months. Now that a lot of job sites sell your data and some jobs are straight up fake to collect data, it is so hard to stay off a list.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was talking about this with my partner. The meta now is to use a dedicated email and phone number when applying for jobs.
Kuma@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you start at a new job and get a phone number that happens to have been owned by someone that signed up to a lot of stuff then you will get them… I sometimes also get random phonecall from old ppl that goes “oh shit wrong person” or text messages wishing me a happy birthday, I feel bad for those ppl. In the beginning did I answer them but it was annoying after x amount.
Apparently did I get a old mans phone number who was very loved but very bad at communicating that he changed his phone number and also signed up for many things. So I only answer if it is with in my work hours otherwise do I just ignore the phone call completely.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used to not get any as well. Then for a new job I had to sign up with an American company, and since I didn’t have a company phone yet, I used my private number.
Since then it’s been multiple calls/messages per day, but over the years it’s died down. I fucking hate it so much.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
You and I do not sign up to shit that requires our phone numbers. Presumably because we do not enjoy getting fucking owned.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I got a lot of spam calls when I started signing up for “rewards programs” and eventually stopped signing up for them. I get 1-2 a week now.
JonTheKnight@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know how or why, but it’s 5-6 a day some days. Most get autofiltered so it doesn’t even ring but they still get to leave voicemails for some dumb reason. So I end up with an inbox full of clearly AI voice generated messages. Many of them are the exact same handful of recordings. It’s honestly frustrating as hell.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
I can’t use voicemail anymore. My message says “You can leave a message if you want, but I’ll never listen to it. If you want to reach me, send a text at this number, or email me at XXX.” That gets rid of most of the bullshit, and I only have to deal with people who were motivated to go the extra step to reach me.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ironically that was the cause of the first worst scam calls. The govt had a do not call list that you could put your number on which then became THE phone book for scam calls instead of stopping them. If you’ve ever signed up for anything or paid for anything online and had to give your phone number, it went into a list that was sold on. With auto dialers, they just go through every permeation of possible numbers. I don’t get many calls on my cell because I keep that number private and use my already compromised land line for everything.