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Fraudulent calls for telecom promotions
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Yes. Constantly.
I went from ignoring them, to politely asking them to remove my number from their list, to letting them know that their call is illegal. I also played along for as long as possible (wasting their time), and tried yelling at the top of my lungs. Nothing works.
Criminals don't care, as long as they can make money from someone.
Now, my folks have this feature on their phone where the caller has to verify (pushing a number) that their call is legit. This apparently works well enough that they don't get scam calls.
Oh that's interesting. I'm going to ask my service provider if that's an option.
I think it's "call screening" or something like that. I have a client to has the same feature on their phone for a business line, and he said he hasn't had spam calls in years.