• WillySpreadum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        9 kuukautta sitten

        just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

          • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
            6·
            9 kuukautta sitten

            True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn’t be quite so unbelievable.

      • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world
        24·
        9 kuukautta sitten

        Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.

        • makyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          9 kuukautta sitten

          That’s what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who’d only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key

        • Klear@lemmy.world
          11·
          9 kuukautta sitten

          That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen. Edit: **Re-**elected, I missed that. I guess the second option then.

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
      30·
      9 kuukautta sitten

      Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    69·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that’d be great.

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      9 kuukautta sitten

      That’s true but they usually spoof some person I don’t know. So if I google it and it’s some Betty from East Bumfuck, I know not to pick up. Now, if they spoofed someone I know, that’s different.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        9 kuukautta sitten

        My phone is good enough at blocking spam calls that when an unfamiliar number calls I answer, and it’s usually a wrong number

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      1·
      9 kuukautta sitten

      The thing is, there are legit reasons to want to spoof numbers. My use case is that if I’m not reachable via sip I send the call over the normal phone network and set cid to the calling number.

      I guess a middle ground would be that you could spoof numbers to phone numbers you’ve registered and verified with your provider.

      To be honest though, the scammers and spammers will always find a way round it and spoof anyway.

  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    I just make the G Assistant answer it

    9 times out of 10 telling an AI voice who’s calling and why is too hard for even a normal human to figure out so they hang up and now there’s nothing to worry about!

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    Mr google, please add a “search this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I’m slow typer

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
      22·
      9 kuukautta sitten

      I want to be able to search the phone numbers in maps. Searching Google sucks because of all the algorithm gaming scam sites. I just want to know if this number is a local business I might actually want to talk to.

      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 kuukautta sitten

        Does the USA not have an official phone registry website? Where I live you just go on there and look up any number, person or company you want. It’s basically an online phonebook.

        • invertedspear@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 kuukautta sitten

          Not that I’ve found. There are plenty of ways to find a number of a business. But harder to find legitimate ways to find people’s numbers. And it’s almost impossible to reliably find the owner of a phone number.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    23·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    Ten of the last twelve incoming calls on my phone were scam numbers. I haven’t had the ringer or vibrate turned on for my phone for months so I never notice them. My phone does a pretty good job of blocking them and an outstanding job blocking spam texts

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
    22·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    If you answer and it’s a scam then they know you’ll pick up the phone in the future.

    • PatMustard@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      9 kuukautta sitten

      Only if you say something. Pick up, say nothing, if it’s a robot waiting to hear a voice it will hang up, if it’s a real human you’ll get a “hello?”

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 kuukautta sitten

      This is exactly as it should be. I haven’t changed my greeting since I started at my current job so it still says the previous employees name lol. Plus I left my desk phone in my previous cube so I don’t actually have a phone at all.

      • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
        81·
        9 kuukautta sitten

        I mix it up, scammers have an automated system that goes “vwoop” when you say “hello” so I’ll answer as if I’m answering the phone from some fictional business of some sort.

        The scammer will hang up and then call again. wash rinse repeat a few times and then I don’t get any calls on my real phone number from scammers for awhile.

        You know they share information with each other on facebook and other services owned by facebook. So all their scammer groups stay open, but if you say that there were never any WMDs in iraq on facebook, or if you question any official narrative about anything at all on facebook, or do any real journalism through facebook, your entire account will be erased from it.

        meanwhile, scammers have hundreds if not thousands of groups on facebook that exist for the sole purpose of sharing victim’s information with each other for a profit and facebook does absolutely nothing at all to put a stop to that.

      • ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 kuukautta sitten

        Just type the number into google. If it doesn’t come up with a number from a business or you don’t recognize it, just ignore it. Most of the time I just ignore calls, and if it’s important enough, they will leave a voicemail or text me.

  • CptEnder@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 kuukautta sitten

    I literally did this the order day because a phone number called twice in 2 days and bypassed my Pixel’s spam filter. All the sites for googling phone numbers are all scams it looks like. Anyone know a good one?