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this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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when i had a pixel5a, i would get multiple scam calls a day without fail, and almost always at the exact same time. with my new non-pixel, non-samsung and non-iphone i dont get as many as before, google is most likely selling your data to the very same scammers. i got a OP12R instead.
I just looked up OP12R. Looks cool but comes with android. Are you using a different OS?
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That's fine. I'm just not going to enable it.
I'm just not going to ~~enable~~ disable it.
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If people need to be warned that they might be scammed by someone with an Indian voice asking them for gift cards, I think that they should be reclassified as AI mounts instead of people at that point.
People do become more senile as they get older, but they need to recognize it as well as prepare ahead of it in time. Who knows, maybe being an AI pet mount then wouldn't be so bad, as long as it was with an offline localized LLM-like AI vetted openly and widely, not the transparent excuse for abuse this is.
get a load of this: those people are allowed to vote. they cant follow a phonecall but feel entitled to make decisions about their country. cant make that up. go water plants with mountain dew!
More than half of Americans reported receiving at least one scam call per day in 2024.
Bullshit.
Americans still actively use telephony services?
I just don't use the Phone and SMS apps. Haven't for years. It's old tech that's only used by bots and scammers.
Get with the times. Just block them. You're basically putting an ad blocker on.
I'm not American, but my country has largely moved off phone and SMS but we still get spam messages on WhatsApp and Telegram. The spam and scam will chase you wherever you go, if they haven't, it just means those platforms aren't popular enough in your region for them to switch to.
Unfortunately my 70 year old neighbor is tech illiterate so they only know how to call and answer calls on the smartphone they got given by the phone service they use. Also some places i order food from have such shit online ordering or whats essentialy a test app for their app that phone calls are just so fucking easier. Heck official apps for chains dont let you log in if you have a vpn since they still go through your browser app and im NOT letting my browser through clean to order shite so again, calling works just fine.
Yes. Still common in US.
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