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Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is a really dumb fix that I started using several months ago when I was getting 5 or 6 spam calls a day.

I would answer, and if they asked for my name or whoever lives at my address I would tell them they have the wrong number, I'm not them, I don't have a house, whatever. Anything to make them positively sure that the person they are looking for does not exist here. Within 1 week the calls dropped off significantly. Now, about 5 months later I get maybe one call per month.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Another thing that helps is to answer and immediately mute your line so the caller only hears an empty line. Spam dialers hang up and eventually mark the number as invalid, and most people who are real callers will prompt with a hello or something. I did that for a while before I got the Google call screen, which cut it down even more.

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