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.

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      Done. Lol. I’m just ticked off at the inability to just know who is calling. Its basic human firewall…contacts, attachments, etc but in phone land.

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      I’m blocking 6 - 20 numbers per day from random numbers that don’t lead anywhere but promise me a pre-approved loan (when the leave a message). I don’t have a voicemail message and I deactivated the voicemail on purpose so they couldn’t leave messages to prevent them filling up my mailbox.

      I’m tired of blocking numbers that don’t exist.

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    You’re annoyed that you are getting robocalls, so you get another AI chatbot to generate you lists of websites you can visit to look up the (almost certainly spoofed) number? I think the solution is less bots, not more of them…

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    Answer the phone, wait 3 sec. then put it on mute. Now lay it down and ignore it. Never had one that tried more than twice.

    their calls are not free. not expensive but not for free.

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    I recently had my email used to set up a total wireless plan. (They just used the email for signup, didn’t have access to it) And I had to go in and cancel the account, report it to their idiot customer service department, and then not even a full day later, the same people do it again.

    Since I technically own the account, I have access to the online portal, and I have been keeping logs of the new numbers they register, and use, and the Google accounts associated with it, and I have an open case with some podunk north Carolina sheriff department.

    Nothing has or will come from this, but I am collecting as much of their data as I can, just in case.

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      I see the number. They call exactly when I login to my computer. I think there’s some website cookie doing something.