99% of calls are robocalls

>Seriously, why the fuck is spoofing even allowed?
DID for large businesses, when you call out, you want the number displayed to be the main line, not your extension's number

>2018
>still answering calls

If someone has something important to say they will use a modern means of communication.

Smoke signals?

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Gas the robots

You make the robocall talk to a robot. That is the only solution.

>robocalls
is that a US thing? i get pajeets from "microsoft" calling. last one called me a motherfucker and hung up after i politely asked to be taken off the list.

I have a call blocker but they use randomly generated numbers that look like local numbers.

Captchas.

Don't answer calls from unknown numbers.

This, kind of.

If someone needs me they'll leave a voice mail or email or text.

Don't blindly enter your number into forms online maybe? I don't do this and have never had a spam call. Why not request for a new number from your provider?

Maybe stop using a landline?
I've had my cell number for 3 years and the only strangers that called me were wrong numbers.

You're either Euro or underage

>Please contact us or we will be forced to take legal action against you. These charges are very serious.

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Wait, so you guys have been getting those scam calls that use the first three digits of your number and end up being some Korean pre-recording as well?

I just figured somebody put my number on a list or something.

I'm 36 and live in the US. Currently using one of those prepaid plan you can get from wal mart .

don't give out your phone number lmao?

Get robo call takers.

Ontop of that they have the spoofer shit that makes it look like a local number in your area with your area code so you think "oh it's a local place or a local wrong number no biggie" then you answer "hi! your non existent car warrentee has...." Oh go fuck yourselves.

this, basically only answer family calls

it’s just endless series of robots calling and hanging up on each other

Link? Sounds like something that happened.

Got four of these in a row the other day. Fucking pajeets couldn't even English though so it made no sense. Goddamn shitskins.

>Suing people in India

Good luck with that one bro

This, only answer calls from unknown numbers if you're specifically expecting a call from a number not in your contacts. If it's important otherwise, they'll leave a voice mail.

>herro
>you in trabble fo tax evashion
>call bek immediaretey

This was a viable option in the early 2000s but number spoofers have pretty much killed the Do Not Call list. Now any pajeet overseas can spoof a local number and spam you endlessly and there's nothing you can do about it. You can report it to the FCC but they can only investigate so much and if the spoofers are constantly changing their devices and numbers it's next to impossible to stop. Plus the Do Not Call list doesn't restriction political organizations, customer surveys, and nonprofit groups like charities and whatnot from calling you.

Spoofing's allowed so large businesses can sync outbound calls to customers using one single number, or at least a small handful of numbers. Otherwise, despite dealing with one business, you could get calls from all sorts of different numbers, one from sales, one from support, etc. it also protects employees from having their internal number seen by people outside the company.

Every robocall I've gotten in the past few years has been a spoofed local number (always different local numbers too, so I can't block them). If I call the number back it's just some random person in my area code, I've even had people call me claiming I had called them. Is there anyway to block this?

In India, they don't need robots.

>they use randomly generated numbers that look like local numbers
They call that neighbor spoofing. It's supposed to trick soccer moms and grandparents who recognize the area code and prefix thinking it's someone local calling them. I get these on an almost daily basis. I downloaded a FOSS call blocker that allows to block calls based on prefixes and wildcards. I setup a filter based on my area code and three-digit prefix.

These. The days of answering a landline phone with no idea who is calling you are long gone. I've got all numbers saved in my phone with contact information so when I get a call, I know exactly who it is. Any number calling me not assigned to a contact goes unanswered. If it's important, they'll leave a voicemail.

Meant to link these:
bbb.org/en/us/article/news-releases/16670-a-new-kind-of-phone-scam-neighbor-spoofing
github.com/qguv/NoPhoneSpam

That sounds like fun. In the US we mostly have these very obviously pre-recorded messages from people who either sound like robots or speak in a very exaggerated secretarial tone to bait old people, offering you insuramce or warning about student loan repayments or something. Amusing at first, but got old fast.

>having a phone number

you know they just put you on a different list, right?

>have a shit job i hate
>have a stationary phone at job
>to make job even shittier, now there's some robocall about fucking life insurance going to that phone every fucking day
no one else seems to be getting hit.

>those scam calls that use the first three digits of your number
More like first 6 digits.
Do they actually expect anyone to fall for that? I've never met anyone with a number that similar to mine.

yeah, just to spite me probably. stupid 3rd world people.

I live in America. Why don't I get robocalls?

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Jokes on them I keep my voicemail full and when I really don’t want to bothered I forward all my calls to a weather man line.

lol

Your mom stopped paying your phone bill

I say it's time for payback. We should setup our own call center and phone every Indian to see how they like it. Tell them to eat hamburger and that they'll never become a super power.

>let's just make it easier for (((them))) to control us by polarizing billions of people.

>on the do not call registry
>spam caller pulls the do not call registry
>calls all in the do not call registry
>caller states they are on the do not call registry
>spam caller can't stop thinking about your money and their script
>rinse and repeat

Time to Romeo call the Romeos.

>just download this anti-spam app!
>just give some random chink company access to your contacts, access to your call history and the ability to pre-screen your calls
lol

> 99% of shitposts are frogposts
How do we stop this?

I get robocalls on my cell all the time. Lately in Chinese.

while we on the subject:
>LinkedIn: You have been searched '47' Times today
how can I cause these people an extremely painful death?

NEETs don't get robocall spam. You have to actually go outside and do something to get on a robocall list, like signing up for a free estimate about something (Remodeling, in-house demos, etc.) or have your info at a place you shop at or do business with stolen through a data breach.

LinkedIn was a terrible idea to begin with and is on the verge of losing all credibility.

That's why you check the app's permissions first. The one I use is open source and on github for all to review and requires zero permissions. But yeah, normies just search for 'call blocker' and install the first one that requests access to your sd card, wifi information, contacts list, etc.

Fuck with them
Waste their time
What else do you really have going on
What are they going to do? Call you again?
Oh no
Waste their time more

I was getting 1 or 2 every day a couple months ago. I had to leave my phone in DND mode. I don't know what happened but suddenly it slowed down to 1 every few days.

A lot of robocallers have setups where they can flag numbers active or inactive based on whether the call rings after dialing, goes straight to voicemail without ringing, or, God help them, if the person owning the number actually answers. This is why you actually shouldn't answer unknown numbers unless you're expecting a call, because if it is indeed a scammer, you answering it will flag their autodialer software as an "active" number and they'll be more likely to call you more frequently in the future. When you put your phone on DND mode, it sent all those calls straight to voicemail without ringing and eventually their autodialer probably flagged your number as inactive where they scaled back the number of times they called you.

This.

C'mon Jow Forums you're better than this. Time = Money. Simply waste their time by tying up the lines with another robot.

And stop answering random numbers. If you haven't saved it, you probably don't know them. If it's important they'll leave a message. Otherwise picking up the number can increase the chances of them calling back more than they would have if you hadn't have answered.

I'm on it and the spammers who spoof local numbers still call me. I can't exactly report them without their real number.

frog website

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6zLwATeAc

Cet some friends

Find the people operating them, and public execution on pay per view.

>tfw accidentally clicked on one of these

how fucked am i?

I dream of one day living in a generic cyberpunk setting where you can just hit a semi-illegal button and brick any phone that calls you.

make a captcha for your phone

Did anyone get the windows live has expired on your PC call? Gotten that a few days ago. Fucking lmao.

How did this even happen? I don't understand some of the ways telecommunications tacitly supported fraud on a massive scale. There are numerous "features" that fraudsters have access to where it seems like the intent is too facilitate the breaking of laws. The most notable being call spoofing.

EMP over India

lol Israeli leaders.. I thought the indian phone calls where run by Russian gangs/hackers.

>mfw I work in VoIP
>people are still paying for "land lines"
>Advanced spam and robocaller protection is available and easy to use, but CID spoofing provides a quick way around it.
>businesses still using technology from the turn of last century to conduct all of their business
>CID spoofing is so easy to do that any 10 year old with a computer and asterisk can make you think that your mom is calling.
>Analog land lines are still a thing
>Alarm and security companies have the ability to upgrade customers to more secure forms of telemetry and monitoring but aren't pushing as hard as they should to get people off of analog.
>Some older people are still paying a monthly fee to the telco to lease a phone they got back in 1972
>Long distance and international rates are just another way to strong-arm more money out of you.
>it takes 5 minutes to set up Google Hangout, Skype, any number of modern communication software.
>mfw I want to kms for working in this field
>I want to slap the shit out of some customers more though.
>WHY THE FUCK ARE FAX MACHINES STILL A THING IN 2018??

I've never had a machine call me. And only twice had any marketing company called me.

cipher encrypted and wax sealed letter, delivered by an delivery boy

assuming gender and age of delivery person

>He doesn't know how into voip

>phone company allows spoof so corporate fucks don't have to dial out into a main phone system
>phone company won't reverse the spoof so feds can bring spammed on charges
>won't reverse the spoof so you can autodial the spam line on voip for 7 weeks as revenge
Telecom as always is to blame.

We get the pajeets too and I love fuckin with em when I have time, but a lot of ours are IRS tax scams (because people fear the motherfuckin Internal Revenue Service) and lots of "you won a cruise! HONNNNNK" I dunno, the cruise thing is pretty old...have not heard that one in awhile.

>Tomoko: ...
>Yes hello you have free local dick pictures waiting, please call us back at...

>how to put phone in Dungeons and Dragons mode

>user hears The Viagra Truck pulling up to the door..
actually don't mind a bit of spam, but these fuckers are monotonous. Wayyy overboard. Russian hairyHatted Spam Fuckers, go freeze to death in a Vodka drought. Fucking ridiculous I cannot (in online email providers) simply block a fucking mail by title, like altogether. 'LinkedIn:..' etc. - well done, you made my shitlist, not even Spam folder, need to check that occasionally, just, Get. It. To. Fuck.

(RANT) - no, but assuming your email blocks inline image dls, and tracking pixels and shit, opening one not make a fuck of difference, you'll still get a fucking barrage either way. Actually going to the link, YMMV, I think they do just want to sell you some blue pills. They rely on the magical 0.1% who are both fucking dumb enough to click on it, then figure, 'what the, may as well stock up while I'm here..' But these cunts sending wayyy too many, people getting pissed now.

Declare exterminatus on India.

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I accidentally clicked on the link in the email and immediately closed it and ran a scan and had 3 bitcoin miners. I think the worst that'll happen is I'll just get more of those emails now.

Get more friends. :^)

Those kind of blacklist solutions do jack-shit to stop local number spoofing.

I thought I was the only one. Literally 90% of my calls are spam.

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Closed source spyware with a license that prohibits you from observing it to see how badly it's fucking you over.

This app has access to:
Identity
find accounts on the device
add or remove accounts
read your own contact card
Contacts
find accounts on the device
read your contacts
modify your contacts
Location
approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)
SMS
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
receive text messages (MMS)
receive text messages (SMS)
send SMS messages
edit your text messages (SMS or MMS)
Phone
directly call phone numbers
directly call any phone numbers
modify phone state
reroute outgoing calls
read call log
read phone status and identity
write call log
add voicemail
Photos/Media/Files
read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage
read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera
take pictures and videos
Microphone
record audio
Wi-Fi connection information
view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information
read phone status and identity
Other
use any media decoder for playback
bind to a notification listener service
MMS Wakeup
read voicemail
write voicemails
receive data from Internet
view network connections
create accounts and set passwords
change network connectivity
disable your screen lock
full network access
change your audio settings
read sync settings
run at startup
draw over other apps
use accounts on the device
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping
modify system settings
toggle sync on and off
install shortcuts
read Google service configuration

>even robots don't call

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If someone doesn't leave a voicemail when they can't reach you then the call didn't matter. I never answer the phone unless it's someone in my contacts.

I get spam calls and texts for some other fucking person.

Anything but implications there Vlad?