[Semaphor]

I (in Germany) still wonder why I’m lucky. I’m not complaining, I’d like to keep it this way. But my phone number is relatively ancient, as it’s still the same I got with my first phone around 22 years ago (maybe almost exactly? I think I got it for Christmas when I was 16 :D), and it even was included in the Facebook leak a while ago.

After the FB leak, I got a maybe 6-8 spam calls over the next month, and that was it again. It’s maybe 1-2 per year, and they are easy to recognize because they call from different countries.

I thought it was maybe Germany having stricter regulations, but people on Reddits /r/de do complain about spam calls, so no idea.

[Sweepi]

I agree.

On this front, the Bundesnetzagentur (https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Vportal/TK/Aerger/start....) does its job quite well, for decades at this point.

[ghaff]

Experiences seem to differ a lot. In the US, I only have a cell phone so I have to give out the number and I only get junk calls once a month or so. It's certainly not in the disable incoming calls category. (Although I also suspect that different people have different tolerances and different perspectives on people being able to reach them from possibly unknown numbers.)

[nielsole]

I think I've not had a single spam call in more than ten years. (Also Germany)

Whenever I get a temporary number for the US I get spam SMS and calls.

[Izkata]

In the US, I've had my number for about as long as GP and get something like one spam call every couple of months.

[patrickmcnamara]

I get spam on my landline about once a year in Germany. It woke me up from a nap yesterday. :(

[Towaway69]

I haven’t had a landline for nah on 15 years - well not one connected since it remains a requirement to have one if you have DSL at home in Germany.

Occasionally I check the caller list on my dsl box - probably low single figure spam calls per year.