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[–] Maestro@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

American? I'm from The Netherlands and I get maybe 1 spam call every other month or so. And I've been using the same number for almost 25 years.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Must be nice to a functional telecommunications agency that has the tools to punish soammers.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh we do too. Verizon and att make money off of selling the scammers our phone numbers and they wont spend the money to stop it

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Canada, we face the same issues as the US for telecom stuff