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This scam is particarily annoying on the iPhone. They call and hang up so it shows as a missed call on the lock screen. If you are not careful when you unlock the phone and you swipe where the phone number is, it immediately dials back. I absolutely hate that functionality of iOS 7.

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I love that functionality myself, but I have the opposite problem—too often I'm trying to swipe a text or phone call and instead it just unlocks. Maybe we should trade phones. Or fingers.

How often do you get a scam call AND the lock screen notification has been pushed to the bottom (within careless swiping range of the actual slide to unlock zone) AND you are swiping without aiming? Does avoiding that extreme edge case really seem worth removing a useful shortcut?

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