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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by runarberg on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:01PM (#19425791)
Agreed. I experienced a bit of a culture shock moving from Northern Europe to USA. Robocalls are a real pain here in the USA and I don’t know why. I’ve learned that I should never answer a call from a number I don’t know (not that easy), but it doesn’t have to be this way.

I also get a number of text messages trying to phish me into buying drugs or sex. It’s totally nuts.

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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by froindt on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:15PM (#19425908)
> I've learned that I should never answer a call from a number I don’t know (not that easy), but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Not only that, but you basically need to program in all the random numbers you do business with to make sure you don't miss something important. Dentist, doctor, real estate agent, mortgage officer, the random office you're only going to visit once who did your MRI.

And still, someone can just as easily spoof one of those numbers (even purely by coincidence) and you'll pick up.

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