Funnily enough, I was returning a call the other day from an 800 number I was mostly expecting that lead to a Philippine call center and thought “If it was a scammer it’d just be pretending to be America”
Even ending up being legitimate. Wild times. Effective government, yay.
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.
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
Yeah, i see that. I guess I’m just lucky then. I mean there’s this one survey company that nags ppl, but you block their one number or ask them to leave you alone and that’s it. And the boring sellers always get flagged by Google so that’s filtered out automatically. Basically, whenever my phone rings, it’s for me personally and it’s a call I’d want to take.
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.
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.
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
What I’d really like is a complicated menu system where their call can get put through but only after they’ve proven a high degree of commitment and dedication to it. Like what captchas do.
Pixel kind of has this. Seems to be working since I haven’t gotten a voicemail in months 🤷♂️…filters out most non contacts calls before they bother getting screened.
yeah kinda like every doctor office or credit card company we ever call. Imagine if everyone who called us had to go through all these hoops.
Hello thank you for calling [insert your name here]. Please listen closely as our menu options have changed. For questions, press 1. For a one-sided conversation, press 2. To leave a sarcastic jab, press 3. To leave a message with our secretary, press 4. To speak directly with [name], please catch me in person most likely wherever you met me or saw me last. Thank you. Goodbye.
‘Are you aware that our website now has an AI assistant who can handle all of your requests? Just visit www.leavemealone.co.uk for information, rewards and to manage your account. Have a nice day!..’
“Thank you for calling [Person Name]. We are experiencing a high volume of calls at the moment, and all of our customer service representatives are currently assisting other customers. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.”
On pixel phones the Android assistant can filter calls for you
It’s surprising when people follow the machine’s instructions and state who they are and why they are calling. It’s not a menu system, but it gets maybe the best 30% of the effect
Call me cynical but if someone doesn’t send a message after trying to call it’s either because it’s not important or because they want you on the line so they can do ‘objection handling’ to you.
This applies to people you actually know as well as sales people.
Me answering a call because it’s way faster and convenient than only texting like a nervous, terminally online teenager who is trying to stigmatize using a phone to make phone calls: 🥱
nowhere in the OP is there anything about spam calls. the comments just started going that way but this post just reminds me of socially awkward flakes
it’s gotten significantly worse in EU in the recent years as well, anecdotally, I don’t think I got more than idk maybe 10 spam calls in 2011-2019. Since 2020 I sometimes get as many as 3 a week
At work we are required to call customers with a non trackable phone number. So everytime we call someone, it only shows “unnknown number”. I don’t get it how most people would answer that. I would never do that.
I don’t, ‘google screen’ answers it and transcribes the call. Funnily enough I’ve not had a single call transcribed. So that’s a search and block/report.
Lots of reasons, none of them excusable. They could want to stop people from calling back and are too lazy/can’t figure out how to set up an inbound call back route to go to a “Don’t call us back at this number” voice message; they could have switched phone services (or they’re utilizing a call center/got a new call center) that masks automatically. Those are the two that spring off the top of my head.
Surprised that isn’t what the 9 will be called. It’s supposed to have even more AI features. Heck, the 8 Pro apparently can do some things the regular 8 can’t because the 8 only has 8GB of RAM.
It uses Google’s speech to text. As far as you can tell it is a recorded message saying that it’s Google’s call screening system and to give your name and why you’re calling and voice to text to tell you what they say
Then when you hang up it says goodbye to them.
I think the product that was supposed to be AI was the booking assistant
You also can’t easily reverse directory anymore. Now you end up with 30 pages of links to places that will charge you $40 to say that it’s an unlisted cell number.
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