One of the first things I do with a new phone is to block all numbers not in my contacts.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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I also second this action. There is an app you can get called Call Blocker - Phone. It allows you to easily direct anyone not in your contact list directly to voicemail.
I silence all unknown callers.
My favorite calls are the ones that play a recording woman's voice speaking Mandarin. They always come from the 312 area code as well.
Never understood those. My only guess it's a service looking for active numbers and it logs it when it finds one.
Yeah, it might be Cantonese actuall, if I'm not mistaken a lot of the residents in Chinatown in Chicago speak that. Just spam but in another language.
What's odd is that all of these calls hang up if I bother to answer. So yeah, could be looking to see if active, and if that's the case, there must be like a dozen different outfits doing this because nearly that many every day
Send these callers to a recording of the SIT Intercept tone.
Their dialer software will assume your line is disconnected and remove your number from their list.
Enjoy peace.
How?
Don't answer them?