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I just got a call yesterday with the caller ID "CHASE ATM" and when I let Google screen the call it was one of those Chinese language scam calls. I get ~2-3 of these scam calls in Chinese a day, even though I'm Irish. It's fucking irritating, but the fact that they can be so brazen as to have "CHASE ATM" as the caller ID is dumbfounding. It's a goddamn shame our government can't function and scams like this are allowed to flourish.

I'm waiting for the "gotchas" to come to light that will allow the status quo to continue. Seems par for the course so far.




Most of the daily spam calls I get connect from my area code (which is a secondary area code that I haven’t lived in for 15 years). Just yesterday I installed an app that lets me block the whole area code, minus my contacts!


Do you live in Ireland? If so, it's a bit sad for me to learn that this robocall garbage is present in other developed countries, not just the US...


No, Chicago.




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