It’s because scammers have basically ruined an entire method of communication, and the FCC is just OK with it.
Just like physical mail
Surely this person “Scam Likely” has some very important info for me
My experience with scam callers has been that if you pick it up, they will keep calling because they flag your line as live. At one point, back when I’d answer and threaten to report them, it would be at least one call an hour, every single day. Since I stopped picking up, I rarely get calls anymore unless there’s a data leak with a company I use. Then I’ll see a little ramp up for a month or two before it dies down again.
If you pick up but mute instantly and wait for them to hang up, they will flag it as a data line and never call again.
One time I got 3 calls over the course of two days from a number my phone identified as “Scam Likely” and then a text from my friend saying “I put you down as a reference for a job at the Department of Defense can you call them back?”
if it was important they’d leave a vm, ya’know?
Is VM a thing yet? I have never get any VM in my life, oh, but spam calls, for sure, props to Yet Another Call Blocker.
I havent had my voicemail set up in 10 years
