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Is robocalling mainly a US issue? I don't think I ever faced robocalls in Western Europe.

Is robocalling mainly a US issue? I don't think I ever faced robocalls in Western Europe.

I've seen Europeans on HN complaining about robocalls. I'm pretty sure Germany is one of the countries that gets them.

I've been in Germany for a while and I did not receive any yet.

We also get robocalls, had a few cases where neighbours got contacted by "Microsoft support". But one can report to the Bundesnetzagentur. Don't know how effective they are.

They exist and I have got them. But the frequency is about one per year. Wheres here in the US I now get about one per day.

It’s more expensive to terminate calls to EU numbers, so profitability needs to be higher for random dialing.

Also depends on whether your EU country has a developing nation source for < 1 EUR/hr labour.

France and UK, sure. Germany and Italy, not so much.

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