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wewewedxfgdftoday at 3:15 AM2 repliesview on HN

Doesn't matter.

As soon as I hear the "Mr Firstname and how are you today?" I hang up.

Call spammers have not worked out that a formal polite greeting is a big giveaway.


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patalltoday at 10:12 AM

Spammers are probably not targeting you. Like the obvious comma and spelling mistakes in spam emails that are there to weed out the smart people that are much harder to scam, this also serves as a filter to get only the most vulnerable people.

walrus01today at 3:49 AM

Don't tell the call spammers this or they'll train all their "agents" to start phone calls with "what's up, bro" or something they think is the stereotypical opposite of formal.

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