[ithkuil]

These phone calls are absolutely a nightmare. My phone filters out at least 2-3 automatically filtered calls a day and yet a few slip through the cracks.

These companies are using the old phone infrastructure that on paper could be traced without problems. Yet nothing, they operate with impunity

[ElemenoPicuares]

In the US, many people I know have been periodically inundated with scam robocalls... in Mandarin! They spoof a number very close to your own which is a dead giveaway in a larger metropolitan area but probably pretty effective in rural areas with fewer local numbers. The novelty wore off after like the 10th "Nĭhǎo..."

[ithkuil]

The interesting thing is that in Italy in most of these spam phone calls there is actually a human speaking (often but not always with a slight Albanian accent)