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by grownseed
2807 days ago
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In Canada, also get a few of those every day, even though I barely ever give my number out. I noticed that some of those numbers are within the same area code as mine, but not the area I live in. I attempted to call some of these back on occasion, and was surprised to have an actual person on the other end of the line, absolutely clueless as to why I was calling them. I'm not sure whether hijacking a caller ID could allow that, or if some those phones have been compromised and become part of one of the great botnet... Meanwhile, I'm still dealing with large organizations (BestBuy, Fido/Rogers, TD, etc.) still sending promotional offers through all possible media, despite Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation being in full effect since 2017 and me having never explicitly consented to that garbage in the first place. Maybe we ought to bring the hammer down on all spammers, "legitimate" or not... |
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They seemingly call numbers at random (at least, there's zero reason to call me in Chinese). The Chinese language scammers once hit my employer and made it hard to call them for a few hours because the scammers were dialing sequential numbers, and un-assigned numbers were sent to switchboard...
Though sometimes the calls seem to be targetted. Some immigrants have gotten calls from "Immigration Canada", while non-immigrants I've spoken to have not. So maybe there was a leak/theft that hasn't been detected.