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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm guessing the mass here is from USA. People from EU, where regulations work better, what's your opinion on this?

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

Poland here. I really get spam calls, once a week or less. My phone flags unwanted calls as spam so I don't pick up. If I miss a call from an unknown number, then I Google it. I almost never get to talk to a spam call.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Scamers put effort into learning Polish and you didn't even hear them out? Harsh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm from France, there's actually a law to force telemarketers to use certain phone ranges, which I've blocked.

During some periods, I have a call blocked per day, sometimes more, then nothing for a while.

I sometimes have the odd phone call that passes through, but unless I know I'm expecting a call, or it is from a number I know, I never pick up. It's usually spam anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

German here, I also google unknown phone numbers first if they are mobile phone numbers. My business phone number is in the imprint of every website I make due to legal reasons, so I receive around 1-2 spam calls per week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm from the EU. I do the same. I hate getting calls. It forces me to drop everything I'm doing and suddenly switch contexts, which I absolutely hate. So I usually don't answer unless I expect the call or know the number. If it's important they can enter a voicemail or preferably send a message, either of which doesn't require an immediate response and is therefore a lot less annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

from the various comments it looks pretty much the same. I have two numbers UK, and PL, and I get spam calls on both of them. It's gotten to a point where if I don't recognise a number and don't specifically wait for a call from somewhere I just ignore it