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by ElemenoPicuares 1177 days ago
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..."
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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)