WTF is with all the spam calls in Spanish I'm getting???

[Beau Vine 54433]

I'm seriously averaging 4-5 of these a day over the past week.

[burntorangebongos 10752]

Does you last name end in a vowel? You might have gotten on the list by accident if so.

[elfenix 34332]

i got a lot of chinese spam calls for a while.  my name isn't remotely chinese. 

[HOOKEM4 5044]

25 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I'm seriously averaging 4-5 of these a day over the past week.

Pinche Beau Vine.

[NorthLoop 14248]

9 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i got a lot of chinese spam calls for a while.  my name isn't remotely chinese. 

Yeah I get those from time to time. Usually a Houston number. 

[TwiceHorn 31538]

How do you know they're Spanish or Chinese?  Do you answer them?  Do they leave messages.

[RDCanecutter 26474]

38 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I'm seriously averaging 4-5 of these a day over the past week.

Pos wey tu vieja ya tiene su Sancho weyyy.

[Helobious 9464]

Who tf actually answers spam calls? 

[RDCanecutter 26474]

1 minute ago, Helobious said:

Who tf actually answers spam calls? 

My wife answers them, and speaks slowly and calmly in German.

[Guest Lobo]

27 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i got a lot of chinese spam calls for a while.  my name isn't remotely chinese. 

I thought your name was Donald Chang?  

[NorthLoop 14248]

13 minutes ago, Lobo said:

I thought your name was Donald Chang?  

That's ridicurous

[Beau Vine 54433]

Who tf actually answers spam calls? 

If I don't answer, they get left as a voicemail.

[Beau Vine 54433]

How do you know they're Spanish or Chinese?  Do you answer them?  Do they leave messages.

I took 4 years of Spanish in HS, so I actually know a couple of Spanish words.

[BladeRunnerRock 33]

10 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

My wife answers them, and speaks slowly and calmly in German.

My 80 yr old dad answers them in a voice that is a combo of Gomer Pyle/Forrest Gump. It's quite entertaining.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

Someone signed you up for Los Datos de Gatos.

Edited December 11, 2020 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Dennis Taylor 18874]

13 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I'm seriously averaging 4-5 of these a day over the past week.

Too much Univision weather girl stalking

 

[Armybrat 40915]

Ciudad Acuna’s chamber of commerce is just doing followup courtesy calls to their favorite clientele.

[Guest Lobo]

1 hour ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Too much Univision weather girl stalking

 

Can we get a name here?  Maybe a ruling?  

[Captainant 27787]

Hey isn't there some big federal commission that's supposed to tamp down on communications abuses and fraud like this?

[Armybrat 40915]

1 hour ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Too much Univision weather girl stalking

 

Ese culo

[NeverMarryAStripper 21922]

I've been getting a bunch from NY numbers in Vietnamese

[RDCanecutter 26474]

Spam calls are not all bad. I have been offered quite reasonable warnings that the warranty on my '95 Tracker has expired.

[CowboyFred 1151]

13 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

14 hours ago, Helobious said:

Who tf actually answers spam calls? 

If I don't answer, they get left as a voicemail.

I’ve been getting them for at least a year and I’m on the do not call list or whatever.  Fucking pendeja trying to offer me insurance or whatever.  I’ve stayed on the line and told them to fuck off and die in a fire multiple times but I still get them.  
 

also the numbers that call me are always spoofed so you can’t call back.  I read a month or so ago there is legislation pending that would require registration of IPs or something of any call center or something like that.  
 

fuck those putos ya me tienen hasta la madre con sus chingaderas!!

[Armybrat 40915]

3 minutes ago, CowboyFred said:

I’ve been getting them for at least a year and I’m on the do not call list or whatever.  Fucking pendeja trying to offer me insurance or whatever.  I’ve stayed on the line and told them to fuck off and die in a fire multiple times but I still get them.

fuck those putos ya me tienen hasta la madre con sus chingaderas!!

Lo que dijo

[Dennis Taylor 18874]

16 minutes ago, CowboyFred said:

I’ve been getting them for at least a year and I’m on the do not call list or whatever.  Fucking pendeja trying to offer me insurance or whatever.  I’ve stayed on the line and told them to fuck off and die in a fire multiple times but I still get them.  
 

also the numbers that call me are always spoofed so you can’t call back.  I read a month or so ago there is legislation pending that would require registration of IPs or something of any call center or something like that 

More laws for criminals to ignore should do the trick 

[Captainant 27787]

13 minutes ago, CowboyFred said:

also the numbers that call me are always spoofed so you can’t call back.  I read a month or so ago there is legislation pending that would require registration of IPs or something of any call center or something like that.  

IMO, this isn't a legislative problem - it's a technical one. There's literally zero authentication on which phone number is displayed. Banks have been getting their phone numbers spoofed and used to rob victims. The FCC has been absent for a decade on this issue, and it's 100% within their scope to improve telephone communications standards

[Armybrat 40915]

It would be nice for the spam victim to be able to push a special button that would fry the electronics at the call’s point of origin and dox all those crooked fucks.

[jeevsie 3740]

That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch.  Your spanish is worse than your english.

[next2naus 439]

Are you at Pronto's or another convenience store a lot?

[crash_davis 23115]

why doesn't the FCC or some governing body fine the shit out of the retailers/services who pay for the shitheads to spam your phone? 

[Captainant 27787]

22 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

why doesn't the FCC or some governing body fine the shit out of the retailers/services who pay for the shitheads to spam your phone? 

It's predominantly overseas abusers with a shitload of shell corporations in-between. At least as far as most of the scams and outright fraud go. 

And it turns out, we don't have much ability to enforce US laws overseas. 

Which is why the solution should be to actually fucking authenticate caller ID with a technical solution rather than write more laws that aren't useful

[MNLonghornFUKM 8822]

I haven’t answered a single call but these are just from yesterday and today

[NeverMarryAStripper 21922]

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

It's predominantly overseas abusers with a shitload of shell corporations in-between. At least as far as most of the scams and outright fraud go. 

And it turns out, we don't have much ability to enforce US laws overseas. 

Which is why the solution should be to actually fucking authenticate caller ID with a technical solution rather than write more laws that aren't useful

A drone strike with a hellfire on every identified call center might get their attention 

[MagicSoccerSpray 1732]

On 12/10/2020 at 6:14 PM, Beau Vine said:

I'm seriously averaging 4-5 of these a day over the past week.

I'm averaging 6-12 spam texts a day with about half being the exact same text from different numbers. Fucking infuriating. If you have ATT, please forward any spam texts you receive to 7726 (SPAM) and reply to the ATT follow up text with the number of the spammer and maybe we can cut down on the volume. Fucking scummy assholes.

Edited December 12, 2020 by MagicSoccerSpray

[TexArcher 38070]

On 12/10/2020 at 6:55 PM, RDCanecutter said:

My wife answers them, and speaks slowly and calmly in German.

I didn't realize that was possible.

[justhookit 4191]

Hola!