i use it with a phone only as a router. never even given the number to anyone and i don't message or call with it. and yet...
Maybe try Carrion from F-Droid? And call the national do not call registry. Both of those ended my spam call epidemic.
In our country the national do not call registry is fake.
We are so smart that we gave the management of it to a "non profit" foundation that charges legal call centers millions of euros. It's 10000x cheaper to ignore the law and call people illegally from abroad. If get caught (very hard as numbers are spoofed, not illegal to spoof a number) pay the slap on the wrist and continue operating illegally
That bites, I didn't trust the US one. But I had a corporate number to test it on and so far these seem to be working. Carrion might work in your country but I think it is maintained by a US university. It blocks unsigned calls. Dont really know what that means but the spam stopped.
OP seems to be Chilean. Do they have do not call there?
we do. i thought i would be okay if i just didn't use the number anywhere so i didn't register. i was so wrong.
They just use auto dialers and try every number, doesn’t matter if your number is actually out there or not
i didn't know about carrion. i don't know if it works in my country. i'll test and see. thank you.
Best of luck! I hope it works for you.
Never heard of carrion, pixel phones have a built in method for this. Would I see a benefit over using the built in features on the pixel?
No idea, honestly. You might not be able to use them at the same time. I had to set Carrion to my "Caller ID & Spam Filter" app in the default app settings.
You're likely to have been given a number which was previously used a fair amount. You could call your phone company and ask for a new number. At least that's how it works here.
If I understand correctly you are just using the sim for data. Just forward the calls to a number that doesn't exist. That's what I did with my data sim. Worked well
Better yet - forward it to someone you hate
Can it be forwarded to a paid number?
I mean, at least they're all from your country.
My company issued everyone iPhones for work and I keep getting calls from Mexico.
Holy shit, I thought people were exaggerating when they said spam calls had gotten out of hand. I didn't think it was that bad.
The older the address the more you'll get. Routinely see people witn att.net or even sbc global emails.
Inundated with spam is an understatement.
Oh spam email I absolutely get a lot of. But spam calls, thankfully, are a relatively rare occurrence.
Whoever had the number before you likely gave it out to any service that asked.
Since you only use it for data, I recommend contacting your provider and asking for a different number.
Phone calls used to be such a quick, convenient way to talk or get info and uselessly governments have paved the way for scam companies to completely ruin the modern day phone call.
I’ve had the same AT&T phone number for nearly 20 years. I still get random calls for the previous owner of this #
Does your internets take a little break while these call?
I wonder if you can just call-forward to your ex.. 🤔
On the jerboah app, I can see you scrolling I guess that's a new feature ?
It's an animated GIF
I know but the app has never done that before so it's cool
why are they all from Chile
i'm chilean. thankfully. would've been wild to be getting calls from a different country like that other comment said lol
ohh
I'm glad that I live in the EU. I don't even remember when I got my last spam call, that was many years ago.
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