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spierceisu

spierceisu

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Has anyone else noticed a huge uptick in spam calls the past few months or is it just me? I get about 5-8 spam calls a day. Some of them are marked as potential spam and others are not. I have had a lot of calls recently asking if I had received my food card. I have been expecting some certain calls for quotes on house items so I have been answering more, but it has been really bad the past week or two. I wonder if I can find a way to bring the number down.
 
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spierceisu said:
Has anyone else noticed a huge uptick in spam calls the past few months or is it just me? I get about 5-8 spam calls a day. Some of them are marked as potential spam and others are not. I have had a lot of calls recently asking if I had received my food card. I have been expecting some certain calls for quotes on house items so I have been answering more, but it has been really bad the past week or two. I wonder if I can find a way to bring the number down.
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The last 2-3 weeks I've gotten more than I've had in the last year
 
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Some days more than others but seems to be an uptick of them lately. Same thing with spam texts too. If the number is not in my contacts I don't even attempt to answer it. Usually they don't leave a voice message. What sucks is they are robo calls so even if you block the number they just call again with a new number in a few days. Probably will get even worse later this year as we near election day when the political robo calls start spamming you too.
 
As a business owner with a website, I get freaking hammered by the robo dialer scams talking about verifying my Google business profile. I between 2 and 10 a day on my business line.
 
Definitely a large uptick for me. I'm getting 6-10 per day.
 
As long as old people keep falling for the scams from India and Pakistan im affraid they are going to keep increasing in volume. They have to try and trick someone into it and it's not working enough so they have to increase call volume.

I keep getting texts that my loan has almost gone through for 36K and they just need a few more pieces of info. Except I have no loans on anything nor do I need one.
 
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Not really worse than the past few years but I'm in the process of buying a home so I actually am answering unknown numbers which is annoying when only 20% are actually people i need to talk with.
 
AI has exponentially increased the amount of this 'marketing' companies can put out there while lowering the cost to them - if you are interested - look into the AI powered tools carriers are starting to provide to be a filter on this for you.
 
Has anyone with an iPhone enabled call screening? My understanding is it will make unknown callers say their reason for calling and then that gets texted to you. You then decide if you want the call to be put through. It is supposed to cut down spam calls but I wonder how much it annoys legitimate unknown callers like service people who call to let you know they are on the way to your house.
 
At the risk of jinxing it, I think I am getting a lot fewer spam calls that a year ago. Most days, I don't get any. And only a few spam texts, mostly election-related. Fingers crossed.
 
99% are blocked on my Google Pixel. When a call or text does slip thru I block/report the number as spam, once enough people do that it'll be blocked on most phones that have spam filters.
 
I'm sure it's partially just a lucky coinkydink, but I don't give out my cell phone # to anybody I don't know personally or share DNA with. That includes doctor offices, political parties, charitable causes, department stores, double-secret-handshake identity protectors like on Facebook, Google, etc. When I'm absolutely forced to, as for gummint and investment business, I give out the flip-phone number...nobody answers that, anyway. When I can get away with it, I have them call my landline with the secret code number to type in. Yeah, pain in the patoot, but again, I hardly ever get any spam on my cell.
 
psycln11 said:
They keep reviewing my Medicare Part B plan. Apparently, I'm leaving some benefits on the table.
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They come in as "Medical" something. And I get legit calls from providers with that designation when the phone rings. The spam calls always say their records show I may not be signed up for Part B.

I always ask them if they're sure they have the right person. Who are they calling? They don't know. Or if they do I deny it's me.

Then I get the spam texts from the Democrat Party (I'm not registered as either) addressed to me as "Mary." With dire predictions about how they need my money to fight blah, blah, blah.
 
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They come in as "Medical" something. And I get legit calls from providers with that designation when the phone rings. The spam calls always say their records show I may not be signed up for Part B.

I always ask them if they're sure they have the right person. Who are they calling? They don't know. Or if they do I deny it's me.

Then I get the spam texts from the Democrat Party (I'm not registered as either) addressed to me as "Mary." With dire predictions about how they need my money to fight blah, blah, blah.
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I get the same Democrat Party calls, too... Except they call me Marcella.
 
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