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> Why does USA have this huge problem with spam calls and most of Europe doesn't?

Presumably because (1) it's much easier to find English speakers in countries where most robocalls actually originate, and (2) the same model can scale to 320M recipients with very little marginal effort.




Surely in Germany robocallers woul call people in German.


That was the point of the parent poster. Why bother with german and other much less common languages when you could just target a de facto global language that both your victims as well as those responsible for those scams know?




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