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Seems to be a US problem. I als never get unsolicited calls in my country.

Had plenty of robocalls during my year in the UK - mainly the same message that tries to get you to speak first then goes on a spiel about being involved in a car accident that wasn't my fault (given I don't have a car that was pretty moot)

One of them got quite excited when I told her that I’d just wrecked my Lambo. Sadly I didn’t have a Lambo to wreck. They keep calling me, though.

The callers, by their accent, seem to have moved to the vicinity of the Indian subcontinent since [1]. Bless their hearts, they still do check in on my once in a while. It just doesn’t make sense that they don’t organise and make a database of nuisance callees or callees with no vehicle.

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/09/road_accident_nuisa...

In France these calls are pretty common and come in waves.

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