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Missed call (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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 online, 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Older people do this a lot. Either their full name, or "Lastname residence"

    The scary thing these days is that someone needs just a few samples of your voice to be able to clone it using AI. I suspect that scammers will do that, if they're not already doing it, then use it to scam family members. We're going to get to a point where we can't trust people are who they say they are.

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