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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Is this a joke I’m too European to unterstand?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I'm European and the only person I know who calls is my dad, the rest is marketing or scammers. With that said i only get 1 call or so per month.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I live in France and get up to 5 spam calls daily. Telemarketers should get the death penalty.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Same for me in Italy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I live in Germany and have had like two total in a decade

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

How nice for you. Clearly this post isn’t for you though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Spam phone calls are so frequent in the United States that I have stopped accepting calls that are not in my contacts list point blank. If you want to call me on the telephone, you need to get my permission from me in person first, and I make NO exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

People get called by phone numbers outside of their contacts?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

10+ times per day every day year round, all hours of the day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately yes. My office phone forwards to my cell so I can stay home, trade off is I have to answer every call from random area codes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Check with your IT department to see if the system allows for forwarding with the caller ID specified as your office number so you can add that as a contact and know where the call originates from. That's a pretty common feature in business telephony systems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Not anymore I don't.

A lot of young people just don't answer the phone point blank because everyone they want to talk to uses some other messaging service and everyone they don't want to talk to calls on the phone. Apparently this makes it hard for political pollsters to reach the youth demographic.