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.
Same, I’ll just read the auto transcription of the scam call, bill collector, or my mother later when I have the energy
So sad that everyone’s talking about the phone calls rather than asking if Gail’s okay.
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!
phone calls are sus these days
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.
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
I have Bixby on my Samsung which I guess is similar?
This is 100% my favorite feature. I’ve told so many others about it too. Just finally convinced my dad to get a pixel as well.
Wait what? How do you do that?
It only works on pixel phones. Basically a Google boy answers for you and makes them questions. You read the questions and decide if you wanna pick up.
I meant like how as in how do you turn it on, I have a Pixel phone
Go to the phone app. Then press the three dots on the top right. Then settings and the spam and call screen. Finally press call screen.
Oh huh. Turns out it was enabled by default, I just didn’t know how to use it.
You’ll soon be able to do the same with an iPhone too with iOS 17.
It’s not as smart as Pixel’s though cause it won’t be able to interrogate the caller for you.
True, although I think it’s enough for most people.
I’m not a smart man. But if someone more experienced than me in programming can explain me how is this not posible on an app. I would be surprised
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
Doing this has gotten me off most spam call lists.
Sounds reasonable to me
I got a call from my area that woke me up in the morning. I’ve got doctors and shit so I answer it.
No sound. Me, hello? No sounds. Then like someone trying to move the phone.
Me, Who is this? Gruff annoyed voice: Who is this? Me, fuck you who are you? Annoyed voice: uh… This is the city police fund raiser …Rude as hell.
“Like an adult”
An adult does not let their tools control them. And I receive one good call for every ten my phone gets.
Why has this ladies laptop been given military medals and seen the global war on terrorism and desert storm?
Probably as she lives on coronation street, so she’s seen a lot of crazy stuff. Murders, rapes bombs etc. It’s not as safe popping into Rita’s shop for the newspaper and baked beans as it once was.
Fun fact - Gail from Coronation Street invented the hobby of dogging
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
They’re getting ballsy these days too. I’m required to answer the phone at work because it’s a business line, but as a result we get an absolute ton of spam or empty lines. I’ve had them spoof the local hospital’s phone number several times. I got a call from the motherfuckin’ USDA the other day (allegedly), like the government agency. Empty line. Once I got a call on my cell phone from my own phone number, that was interesting.
When the scammers spoof numbers they usually just get a block of random numbers that are local to where they are calling, then they just try them one at a time. They pick numbers that look local because people are more likely to answer.
They never actually bother verifying whose number they’re using though, so it frequently results in them calling from the persons own number who they are trying to scam, local businesses, and even local government numbers.
I work for the phone company and I’ve frequently gotten calls from people telling me someone just called them from their own number lol
Is there a way to figure out who is actually calling? Is there anyway to crack down on this?
There are filter apps you can put on your phone to help identify them since they’re usually calling voip. I know the FCC is trying to ban spoofing and you can report spoofing on their website
Unless they’re in my contacts AND I want to talk to them I don’t answer
I’m not a hardcore privacy follower. So I use truecaller.
I do not answer numbers. If I know you, you are saved with a name. If you are a reputable business caller ID will show me a name.
All my enemies are saved in my contacts to be damn sure I don’t answer.
The system only breaks down when my kids start dialing random contacts.
