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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

this right here. I stopped getting scam calls years ago, I stopped answering and they just eventually stopped calling. If you don't interact with the call (interact being ignore it or mute it NOT reject it) and it just goes to voicemail, they seem to eventually stop

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lucky you. I've been letting calls from any number I don't recognize go to voicemail for years and nothing ever seems to change.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Setup a whitelist, I think it's native on iPhone and there are multiple Android apps. Only calls from your contact list will ring through. My voicemail is, "You're getting this because you're not on my contact list, send a text and I'll get back to you."

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I just block and report as spam any spam text messages I get and any calls that get marked as scam likely. It was terrible before the election because I live in a swing county in a swing state and I think everyone was just mass spamming every number in the area code, but since then I haven’t really gotten much, maybe one errant text every 2 or 3 weeks. Which is much better than it was last spring and summer when the amount started picking up for me.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    If you're job hunting, or work in specific fields this may not be a reasonable thing to do and that's at least part of the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This would deem troublesome yea, being said I firmly believe in separating work and home. I wouldn't be willing to use a personal number for work related activities, at least not public related activities. Being said, I have no good solution for that, at least you are being paid for the scam call I guess.

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