So I go search the web. Nothing. Not just nothing, google comes up with those asshole sites…trulio, whocalled.us etc. They all look the same…paste the number here we have information…then you get a loading icon bar of some sort for a few minutes. Finally you get a burred out fake report… chatgpt of course lists those sites as legitimate. Im like, they’re clearly scam sites but chatgpt responds with im sorry for giving you commercial sites instead of free sites.
My dude, who keeps calling, you had a fucking chance to leave a message. I’m not picking up the phone and my next move is to block your phone number. Keep calling…
I have no clue what the end game is. But it clearly points to how fucking useless our phone system is. To the point where I cannot trust any caller unless I know the person and have the phone in my list. There’s no point in calling and not leaving a message. That’s the stupidest thing anyone can do.
Doesn’t matter if their calls are free or not.
When you pick up, you verify to them that the number is active.
This increases the rate of phone calls because they are hoping you’ll pick up and talk to them out of anger. Everything online and from official channels says log the number, report it as spam and report it as a scan and then block it. You can report the numbers but what’s been happening more recently is these robocallers are spoofing numbers that don’t exist on purpose hoping that you’ll answer so there’s no trail to follow when you report the number.
These numbers haven’t slowed down and I have been blocking them for almost a year now.
When it rings they already know it’s an active number. The level of activity to be defined, but an active number.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/silent-call-unknown-number-its-a-scam