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A comment on iOS 16 Available September 12th. Parent comment

Re:iOS 16 Available September 12th by sangnoir on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:10PM (#32756928)
> So unless you call people in that particular area, you won't be matching their area code, so you won't look like a spammer

You're misunderstanding them too, I suspect. One could equally assume that a call coming from an area code they've never been to, 5 states away is spam - so this trick works if you do not make a lot of calls.

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Re:iOS 16 Available September 12th by xsmasher on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:48PM (#32757434)
> One could equally assume that a call coming from an area code they've never been to, 5 states away is spam

Not equally. I have an area code from the opposite coast. If I get a call from that area code, it is 100% spam. Spammers just love outing themselves by spoofing the same area code of the person they are calling.

A call from any other area code is only 30% chance of being spam.

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