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Report from Germany: Haven't received a spam call in years.

Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year.

I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Canada but it was quite dramatic compared to the US. There are periodic waves but I tend to miss out of them - I suspect because Canada works hard to prevent dumb auto-dialers from working.

It used to be much, much worse here. The CRTC has done some work to address that, it seems like it helped. [0]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-telecom-call-authentif...

Another data point from Canada. I've given up answering my phone or checking my voicemail after 10+ calls a week.

I feel the STIR/SHAKEN changes have made a difference with spam calls for me in the US.

I don't know, my wife gets spam calls almost daily, but i almost never get spam calls. on the otherhand I almost never actually give anyone my real phone number and just give everyone my Google Voice number instead. Google seems pretty good at detecting and filtering them out. the only people with my real phone number are family members, my employer, and a few friends from high-school that had it from before i signed up for google voice in the 2000s.

Google Voice indeed seems to be much better at spam call detection than anybody else. Most of them don’t even make it to the "spam" folder in the app for me; they must be rejected at some lower level due to very high confidence.

Lucky you, if you have a Vancouver number you'll definitely get calls from the "Chinese immigration department" which wants to get you deported unless you immediately wire $1000. How do I know that if they speak in Mandarin you say? I have great imagination B-)

I live in Vancouver and spam calls significantly dropped for me too. It's only a few calls a week now.

Report from Norway.

I used to get perhaps 3-4 calls a week from the same Indian sounding scammers (a man and a woman). They call from UK numbers. However, since I got the pixel, it has a setting to block spam calls, I have not gotten any :)

I also have a Pixel! Maybe that is the reason. Anyway.. I used to get many spam calls but the government put up heavy fines for advertisement via phone, since then these disappeared.

I'm in the UK and I don't remember when I got a spam call last time.

Unfortunately it’s getting more common there too. I‘ve received a few spoofed caller ID calls by now informing me of my "identity theft case with Interpol".

It‘s not nearly the same extent as in the US, though.

Report from Italy: i receive at least 3-4 spam calls and messages a week

You never got a call from a mobile network provider? Incredible.

Yes, I've opted out to receiving calls from my provider and they are not allowed to call me.

Hi Helmut! Greetings from Austria.

> Haven't received a spam call in years.

Ditto.

Also from Germany: I have. Please don't assume something does not happen because it doesn't happen to you.

He didn't assume that, though, just reported his situation.

From Poland: I have two numbers - one I use for various services, and it's constantly bombarded with spam (multiple calls a day), one I only use to contact family members, sometimes some small companies like when ordering firewood - got two phonecalls from an unknown number within a couple days (and I didn't care to answer), and that's it for almost a year now.

Sweden here.

I do the same thing. One phone number is just unusable and I don't answer any calls anymore, mostly UK callers recruiting, or other random spam.

The other, which I don't give to almost anyone except close friends/family, gets no spam. Not sure where my first phone number ended up to become spam target, but I remember I got a call once, when that was really uncommon, which an offer to change insurance companies... I was pissed off with my previous company so I actually did it, and it actually worked well, it was not malicious... but since then I think I was added to a list of "spam-friendly idiot" or something.

And from Iceland, not a peep in years.

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