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by godelski 1419 days ago
This WILL NOT work. The best thing you can do is sign up for the FCC DNC list. It'll take a month but then after that every legal spam call will stop.

The problem with your method is that spammers call phones just to see if they pick up. This then confirms an active number that they maintain in their lists. This can be done legally because technically calling and hanging up and never calling again (from the same number) isn't spam. So just don't answer.

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> It'll take a month but then after that every legal spam call will stop.

Not the ones from politicians.

That's true. They have an exception for some reason.
My point was I have not experienced an uptick in spam calls, and I thought y’all might find that interesting.