[Macha]

Certainly most of my inbound calls in Ireland are scam calls. Not sure this is solved EU-wide, maybe just in your specific EU country?

As far as I know the solution is to require more anti-spoofing techniques (e.g. SHAKEN/STIR) for caller ID and then cut off the carriers who don't provide that, plus the carrier providing the numbers enforcing stronger terms on their users.

[ianmcgowan]

The only anti spoofing technique that works for me is restricting calls to people in my contacts. It’s a bit of a pain with transactional things, but (at least in the US) it seems we’re long past the days where you could just call someone with no warning. I usually get a text or IM first now.

[mrsuprawsm]

I'm in NL, and it seems to be solved here. I'm not sure _how_ it was solved (or they avoided it becoming a problem in the first place), mind you.

[dahfizz]

Would you ever expect a legitimate call from your bank / government / business to be in English? Particularly English with a strong Indian accent?

I think the US gets targeted mostly because of language. Indians learn English in school and it's not uncommon for a legitimate call in the US to come from someone with a strong accent.

[jacquesm]

A couple of items to our advantage: there are quite a few carriers here but only very few of those have physical infrastructure and those tend to have strong political connections. They are tied in with LE and AIVD at the operations level and have excellent security departments and a reputation to uphold. Then there is the willingness of the local authorities to put time into this, and publicize when they nab some of these scammers. And finally, NL is a small market with a weird little language that isn't spoken much outside of our borders. (South African doesn't count ;) ).