tele-spammers

[kengr]

Ok, this is ridiculous.

I got something like 16 calls in a 48 hour period. They were rather obvious too.

My number is (AAA)BBB-xyzt

The spam calls were all supposedly from numbers of the form (AAA)BBB-xxxx where the xxxx was different every call.

I'm told this is common pattern for these sorts of calls. The dumbest part is that since these were made with a predictive dialer (dials several numbers at once and hangs up the others when one answers) they were often hung up before I could have gotten to the phone anyway.

Comments

[fayanora]

You should get a smartphone. Mine usually tells me when a caller is a suspected spammer. Not always, but usually.

[kengr]

You forget. The cheapest data plan available is almost *triple* my current *bill*! So my phone would quadruple. I can't afford that.

It's much simpler to just let numbers I don't recognize go to voicemail.

[fayanora]

I'm pretty sure we were on the same plan, same provider, before I got my smartphone. Comcast is my phone provider now, and my bill with unlimited data, talk, and text is less than it was with Verizon.

[kengr]

my bill is $32

[fayanora]

Oh. Mine is like, $50?