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Oddly, in Canada, many of the spam calls I receive aren't in English. (Mostly Mandarin, though Google indicates it's a problem in the US too: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/609117134/chinese-robocalls-b...)
👤Marsymars🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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Canada definitely is. It is clustered, but there are days when there are a dozen scam calls (a recent one outright spoofs the governments phone number, and then calls you back with a spoofed police number).
👤endorphone🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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I get some of it in Norway. English speaking call centers running scams. A lot of it comes from foreign numbers though, so it is easy enough to at least ignore.
👤runeb🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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They're rare in Australia (though I haven't had a fixed line for years now, so maybe mobile phones have a different targeting profile).
Interestingly, there's been an uptick lately but the recorded messages are all in Chinese.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/bc8p2w/chinese_r...
👤hnick🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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So it’s possible to show a local number when the call is arriving from another part of the world? That seems strange or rather insane, but would explain how the problem happens ;)
👤Semaphor🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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I live in NZ and I've received maybe 1 or 2 in my lifetime. I'm not aware of any particular legal/technical measures in place here to stop them.
👤ripdog🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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I'm in the US and have gotten a non-trivial percentage of spam calls in Spanish and Mandarin. I don't think it's just the language issue.
👤eslaught🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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UK... no. Sometimes to landlines, rarely to mobiles. I have never personally got one.
👤epanchin🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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That raises another question: are other Anglosphere countries flooded by scam calls like the USA?