Never give any company your cell number. Just don’t. I’ve tracked this, I generate new numbers for many common needs, such as recently, refinancing a loan. The amount of garbage suddenly sent to that new number is unreal. It was a number we’ve had for nearly ten years unused, clean. I have one generic personal number that I use for companies. It just goes to VM. I can’t picture what company needs to talk to me NOW instead of leaving a message.
Funny story: An Indian-run dry cleaner, and Indian-run store have actually been offended by this. They said they would text me, and I said they can’t because it’s a landline. The dry cleaner in particular was super perturbed that she “can’t send me coupons and reminders to get things cleaned” and then more pissed when I said those are ads I don’t want. The c-store nearly told me to just get out. WTF. On Mar 18, 2026 at 8:40:47 AM, Alex Balashov via VoiceOps < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 18, 2026, at 11:37 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I wish my upstream (Twilio) had a big "Flag as Spam" button or API call > that would send all the relevant info to whomever needs to know. > > > E-mail sorta has spam reporting handled, but Voice/SMS doesn't appear to > have that sorted out yet. > > > I have been receiving the "tax resolution center" / "loan determination" / > "debt consolidation" scam calls, many of them from TFNs, for close to a > year at this point. They often overwhelm my phone, sometimes several come > in at the same time from different DIDs, and they often interrupt other > tasks or calls. > > I don't know what to do about it other than change my number (TMO), which > I'm unwilling to do with how much 2FA and business stuff is tied to it. > Turning on the iOS "ignore calls from unfamiliar numbers" is also totally > not an option because I get lots of legitimate calls from unfamiliar > numbers. It's really, really, really bad. I seem to have been singled out > for an exceptional volume of these. > > I have on occasion pressed '2' on their IVR to speak to an "agent". The > transfers are instant with no hold time. 100% of "agents" have been Indian. > > -- Alex > > -- > Alex Balashov > Principal Consultant > Evariste Systems LLC > Web: https://evaristesys.com, https://www.csrpswitch.com > Tel: +1-706-510-6800 > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list -- [email protected] > https://lists.voiceops.org/postorius/lists/voiceops.voiceops.org/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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