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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.

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[โ€“] Signtist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 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