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Same in Spain. I get calls every day from energy companies pretending to be my own provider and having lots of data on me like my name and contact numbers.

Privacy is so broken here.



The Android phone application --I think it's by Google-- alerts of most suspected spam, or you can mark it afterwards and block. I still receive one call every other week, pick up and keep quiet, waiting for the caller to speak. Most times they hang in a few seconds. They have a finite number of numbers, so in a handful of years, frequency came from a couple a day.

Yesterday I received a call from Bari, my patron saint's city in Italy. It seems they're exporting their spam. Italy has a weird criminal legislation for scams, that's why there are so many fake products in used items applications like Wallapop or Vinted.


The problem is the false positives. I missed an important call from the doctor because it was incorrectly blocked as spam. So I don't use that feature anymore.




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