Except that 90% of the time you answer and it just hangs up because it’s testing to see if the line is active to sell to telemarketers
Good thing I don’t answer my phone unless I get a voicemail from the person
…you answer your phone? I literally only answer the phone for my spouse unless I am specifically expecting a call. everyone else can leave a message.
I let my voicemail fill up. Send me a text mofos.
If I don’t know who it is then I’m not answering shit. I don’t even bother looking up the numbers anymore because they all come from spoofed caller IDs now, and if you answer you’ll get 1000 more scam calls immediately because now they know you’re dumb enough to pick up
It’s amazing how we’ve allowed a lack of regulation to completely destroy a fundamental form of modern communication. You basically can’t call a stranger and expect them to answer the phone, everyone is screening all their calls because more than half are scams!
Shit, I don’t even answer my fucking door
Anyone who would knock on a door is clearly casing the joint
Why would you answer it? If it’s important, they’ll leave a message. I’m not going to pick it up and risk having to deal with a scammer or something like that.
With the growth of the internet… do we even need phone numbers anymore ? I mean my phone number exists just for spam. I’m mostly just paying for my cellular connection to access the internet and not because I need to have a phone number.
Unless they’re in my contacts AND I want to talk to them I don’t answer
Starts answering phone like an adult …
“Hello this is the law enforcement agency that does not exist in your county and we are about to arrest you for tax violations” hangs up “Hello company you have have never used before is chasing a bill” hangs up “Hello delivery company not operating in your country has a package for you” hangs up “Hello road toll company that does not exist in your country has outstanding toll” hangs up “Hello as a user of a service you have never used we just want to ask“ hangs up
Nah. I’ll keep letting these clowns go to voicemail.
I just get voicemails in Chinese. If China’s planning on arresting me I’ll never know…
“Years later on his death bed, Lemmylefty discovers he had a distant cousin with no other family connections who’s lawyers had been desperately trying to reach out to inform him that he was the sole recipient of his will … but you can only get access if you pay the legal fees to be paid in $5k of iTunes gift cards.”
If it’s a an expected country code, answer the phone.
If it’s an unexpected country code, leave it alone.
Does this work somewhere? In Canada, spam calls are always my country code (which is shared with the US). Area code means little these days, too. Spammers will just spoof numbers.
Well it is a decent first level of defense. I usually get foreign country codes. But obviously don’t trust local numbers either. Let them introduce themselves (don’t introduce yourself) and ask if you can call them back in a minute. In the minute, check if the number is really who they claim to be. Then call the number if it matches and you are interested in the conversation.
This is one of the reasons I got a pixel. To be able to get a bot to answer,of they are real they get recorded and it gets transcribed. So I can tell if I wanna pick up or not. I would legit pay for this feature on an app
