/\ndy18h ago

I have been *besieged* lately with scam calls from some BS "capital funding" company. Always a faked caller ID, always some fellow with an accent in a boiler room setting.

I pissed the last guy off and then got basically 12 near-simultaneous calls in a row.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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@PragmaticAndy does not help you now but fake caller ids can be blocked by mobile operators. Finnish telecom authority forced operators in Finland to do it 2023 https://www.traficom.fi/en/news/obligations-regulation-come-effect-200000-scam-calls-are-prevented-day
Obligations of the Regulation come into effect - up to 200,000 scam calls are prevented per day | Traficom

The spoofing of Finnish phone numbers has finally come to an end in practice after the prevention obligations came into full effect. Thanks to the prevention of scam calls from fixed numbers, which was introduced in the summer of 2022, the number of technical support scam calls collapsed. The prevention of spoofing mobile phone numbers has been in operation for two weeks now, and the arrangement has prevented up to more than 200,000 scam calls per day.

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