Have you experienced a recent dramatic increase in robocalls in the last 48 hours or so?

In the last two days I’ve received 10 robo calls… I know they are robo calls because they are all from my area code (which nobody I talk to uses) and all different numbers. No voice mail, no texts.

This is fairly rare, I usually get one or two a month, but not 10 in 48 hours.

Not in a huge inconvenience, none of them get past Google voice screening, I just see the missed call notifications constantly and it’s annoying.

Image from https://xkcd.com/1129/ used to illustrate the post.

  • Signtist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I applied for a mortgage a few weeks ago, and ever since I’ve been getting literally 40+ spam calls a day. It’s insane. They all get blocked, so it’s not anything I really have to deal with, but my missed calls list is just a sea of red “likely spam” callers.

    • jet@hackertalks.comOP
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      1 year ago

      I got a phone number from rural Montana. As the area code. So I know if anything comes from that area code it’s 100% spam. It’s made ignoring calls very easy.

      But yeah it’s super annoying to have the missed call log filled with spam calls. Honestly phone numbers are dying. I don’t think we need them anymore