I usually get a few scam calls every day but in the last week or so it’s increased exponentially. For example: I’ve received 19 in the past 6 hours. Just curious if this is happening to everyone or just me.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Of the 36 phone calls I’ve received since the start of the year only 3 of them have been real ass human beans.

    This shit’s been bad for years for me, I suspect the longer you hold on to a phone or number the more places it gets “stuck” and the more registers it gets added to etc.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Not at the moment. It goes through phases though, I’ll go months at a time without any spam calls and then somehow my number gets into rotation again and I get dozens a week for a few weeks. I think they just rotate through lists

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    9 months ago

    I recently answered an unknown number due to waiting on medical test results, and now I’m back on Their List 😩

    don’t do it comrades, always just wait for the voicemail…

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    9 months ago

    what I’ve been getting is tons of those stealth spam texts with pretend shit like “Where do you want to meet tomorrow, [name that’s not mine]?” sometimes accompanied by a picture of a woman

  • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I get at least one every day, but not exponential growth.

    Recently, I’ve gotten a new infuriating variant where they rapid-fire call me and leave as many two second voicemails as possible until I answer or block the number. agony-turbo

    Also getting way too many political donation solicitation texts, but thankfully my messaging app puts them in the spam folder automatically.

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    9 months ago

    No more than normal, usually like one or two a day.

    Though, I’ve been unemployed for a few months now and the amount of scam jobs I see is insane. I get so many emails all with the exact same wording and I feel like 50% of the jobs on LinkedIn are fake. There was a day last fall where I got 20 calls/texts from people from the same company wanting to schedule an interview… It was all within 15 minutes of each other, all different numbers leaving voicemails. Weird shit.

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      9 months ago

      I feel like 50% of the jobs on LinkedIn are fake.

      Take this with a grain of salt cuz I only learned this recently and haven’t looked into it, but apparently that’s literally true. Some companies will continually post and repost listings for jobs that don’t actually exist. I’m still hazy on why exactly. I was told it was so that they would appear to be growing at all times, but again, take it with a grain of salt.

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    9 months ago

    i used to get 3 a day, atm maybe one every other day sometimes. though idk if it actually works, i have my voice message as the disconnected phone message.