Does this work somewhere? In Canada, spam calls are always my country code (which is shared with the US). Area code means little these days, too. Spammers will just spoof numbers.
I’m in the US and got a call from some number on a remote island off the coast of Africa somewhere once when I googled it. Turns out it’s some known scam from that area where they try to get you to call back, forgot the details on how it works.
Well it is a decent first level of defense. I usually get foreign country codes. But obviously don’t trust local numbers either. Let them introduce themselves (don’t introduce yourself) and ask if you can call them back in a minute. In the minute, check if the number is really who they claim to be. Then call the number if it matches and you are interested in the conversation.
Yeah, in my experience spam calls are always spoofed numbers that would place them incredibly close to numbers I actually know. I’ve gotten multiple calls one or two didgets off from real relatives phone numbers.
Does this work somewhere? In Canada, spam calls are always my country code (which is shared with the US). Area code means little these days, too. Spammers will just spoof numbers.
I’m in the US and got a call from some number on a remote island off the coast of Africa somewhere once when I googled it. Turns out it’s some known scam from that area where they try to get you to call back, forgot the details on how it works.
Well it is a decent first level of defense. I usually get foreign country codes. But obviously don’t trust local numbers either. Let them introduce themselves (don’t introduce yourself) and ask if you can call them back in a minute. In the minute, check if the number is really who they claim to be. Then call the number if it matches and you are interested in the conversation.
Yeah, in my experience spam calls are always spoofed numbers that would place them incredibly close to numbers I actually know. I’ve gotten multiple calls one or two didgets off from real relatives phone numbers.