• CptEnder
      58·
      2 年前

      Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?

      • WillySpreadumEnglish
        32·
        2 年前

        just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

        • GladiusB
          21·
          2 年前

          Even if it said “President Obama” many people would think it’s a prank.

          • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
            6·
            2 年前

            True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn’t be quite so unbelievable.

      • StaticFalconar
        24·
        2 年前

        Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.

        • KühlschrankEnglish
          9·
          2 年前

          That’s what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who’d only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key

        • Klear
          11·
          2 年前

          That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen. Edit: **Re-**elected, I missed that. I guess the second option then.

    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de
      30·
      2 年前

      Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

    • arvere
      8·
      2 年前

      I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?

  • SkyrmirEnglish
    79·
    2 年前

    Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    69·
    2 年前

    If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that’d be great.

    • Darkmuch
      58·
      2 年前

      I was called by my own phone number once. Nothing suspicious there.

    • ickplantOP
      10·
      2 年前

      That’s true but they usually spoof some person I don’t know. So if I google it and it’s some Betty from East Bumfuck, I know not to pick up. Now, if they spoofed someone I know, that’s different.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 年前

        My phone is good enough at blocking spam calls that when an unfamiliar number calls I answer, and it’s usually a wrong number

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      1·
      2 年前

      The thing is, there are legit reasons to want to spoof numbers. My use case is that if I’m not reachable via sip I send the call over the normal phone network and set cid to the calling number.

      I guess a middle ground would be that you could spoof numbers to phone numbers you’ve registered and verified with your provider.

      To be honest though, the scammers and spammers will always find a way round it and spoof anyway.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    2 年前

    Mr google, please add a “search this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I’m slow typer

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
      22·
      2 年前

      I want to be able to search the phone numbers in maps. Searching Google sucks because of all the algorithm gaming scam sites. I just want to know if this number is a local business I might actually want to talk to.

      • Holyhandgrenade
        1·
        2 年前

        Does the USA not have an official phone registry website? Where I live you just go on there and look up any number, person or company you want. It’s basically an online phonebook.

        • invertedspear@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 年前

          Not that I’ve found. There are plenty of ways to find a number of a business. But harder to find legitimate ways to find people’s numbers. And it’s almost impossible to reliably find the owner of a phone number.

  • Got_Bent
    23·
    2 年前

    Ten of the last twelve incoming calls on my phone were scam numbers. I haven’t had the ringer or vibrate turned on for my phone for months so I never notice them. My phone does a pretty good job of blocking them and an outstanding job blocking spam texts

    • meliaesc
      10·
      2 年前

      I work for a phone company, it’s pretty satisfying seeing all the hard work actually be useful for society.

      • Baylahoo
        2·
        2 年前

        I also want to know more like the previous commenter. Automatic screening that I had with an old pixel phone was the best thing Google ever did for me back with a pixel 3.

  • Dasnap
    22·
    2 年前

    If you answer and it’s a scam then they know you’ll pick up the phone in the future.

    • PatMustard@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      Only if you say something. Pick up, say nothing, if it’s a robot waiting to hear a voice it will hang up, if it’s a real human you’ll get a “hello?”

  • doublejay1999
    21·
    2 年前

    I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better

  • Pharmacokinetics
    171·
    2 年前

    Holy shit I think a scammer company is using my phone number as a fake employee contact number.

    • werefreeatlastBanned
      6·
      2 年前

      This is exactly as it should be. I haven’t changed my greeting since I started at my current job so it still says the previous employees name lol. Plus I left my desk phone in my previous cube so I don’t actually have a phone at all.

  • mycathas9lives
    8·
    2 年前

    I keep a browser window open exclusively for Googling phone numbers. This is way more common than I realized.

      • ShadowCatEXE
        2·
        2 年前

        Just type the number into google. If it doesn’t come up with a number from a business or you don’t recognize it, just ignore it. Most of the time I just ignore calls, and if it’s important enough, they will leave a voicemail or text me.

  • CptEnder
    6·
    2 年前

    I literally did this the order day because a phone number called twice in 2 days and bypassed my Pixel’s spam filter. All the sites for googling phone numbers are all scams it looks like. Anyone know a good one?