• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Both phone calls and emails are so full of ad-ridden garbage that they are useless for communication.

    Texts are better signal-to-noise ratio, for me it is more like only 1% con artist identity thieves compared to the 99% coming via phone call.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know if phone call spam is only an American thing or something. In my country (and most of Europe) that stuff is effectively banned and doesn’t really happen.

      Still hate getting calls though.

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        having proper bans in place do help, cutting number spoofing and rooting out local spam sources + barring voips that facilitate them means spam callers would have to connect internationally and cost more.