Topic: I think I pissed someone off and they gave my phone number to a bunch of scammers
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago#109,372
I normally get 1-2 spam calls per day. It has ramped up slightly in the last couple days. Yesterday I received 39 spam calls. Today I received (so far) 48 spam calls.
spectacles joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 10 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,222,101
use an unlisted VoIP number. a carrier is all you need, the numbers they give are just a gateway to cancer. just set your main line to fuck off notifications and have as many voip numbers as you'd like. like emails. I have so many emails i have a whole schema in place to keep up with all of them. it's easy. and, set your main like to a voicemail that says "hello... you have a wrong number, sorry..." and then mute it for the remainder of the message and people think you hung up. and sometimes won't hang up because they assume YOU did. then you can sometimes get a voicemail with several minute of talking in the background and you can just see the text output of the call in your logs and see when that happens and find out who's dumb and who's REALLY dumb.
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spectacles double-posted this 3 years ago, 16 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,222,104
also, anyone that would do that is a witless simpleton and can't do shit to shat. if that's the best they got. lol.
chances are they fuck up, swat somebody, they get shot, and somebody's lawyer has already let them know who's got it out for them along with their history of posting harassing comments and discussing swatting and stuff on forums with a history of that kind of thing. people are stupid, so might as well play along I guess.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 2 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,222,117
It's starting to calm down, I think. I've only gotten 5 spam calls today. By this time yesterday I already had 34.
@1,222,101 (spectacles)
I'd like to avoid the pain of changing phone numbers, giving the new number to everyone I know, updating it with doctors offices, etc. I've had the same one for over a decade now. I've set my phone to autoblock calls from numbers not in my contacts, and I've gotten into the habit of checking my voicemail frequently to see if I missed any actual important calls, which is a good enough solution to me for now.
spectacles replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,222,118
@previous (A)
yeah. well, don't change it. keep it so it'll always soak your spam. i added unlisted numbers a long time ago. Ip numbers are disassociated from the user on every kind of white pages or listing by name. multiple numbers all forward where I want them, keeps my family, friends and important contacts all containerized from frivolous stuff. burners for my burners, and I have yet to need to burn one. but, yeah, don't give up your spam number, that's important. if you burn it and get a new number it updates aaaalllll the spammers and everyone who's waiting to see where you pop up. new number means they found you. and old number a decade old, they don't know if you still even have it, because all the directories are decentralized and info is mixed as fuck since ma'bell went all baby bell and anyone could be a carrier with a directory.
spectacles double-posted this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,222,120
oh, and you can also fight fire with fire and report yourself to spam and scam places and claim the wrong info on white pages and all the dumb identity sites and personal info places that charge everyone for a stack of wrong info. flood them with shit and obscure your real personal info.