I get at least 10 calls a day lol. They are all from India. Insurance scams, life insurance scams, you name it. I had to switch to only accept calls from known numbers. The rest are just sent to voicemail. I will probably miss on something important, but I have had it.
I pick them up on purpose, bate them, waste their time, call them back, waste more time. It can be fun sometimes, had one hanging on me the other day, I was laughing so hard. "Stop calling us!", "Stop calling you?! Bro stop calling and scamming people!" lol... Im also always looking out for AI phone systems as well. It's real fun messing with those, specially when you can get them off the rails.
I recently did the same thing, as 95% of my incoming call volume in a week was spam calls. It's been great. The friction I feel is when interacting with ephemeral contacts like contractors, etc. I've had to try to be diligent about adding them as contacts if I expect a call back, or hoping they leave a voicemail.
It's sad there really isn't much you can do about it. I tried do-not-call lists, answering and telling them to stop calling me, reporting them - all was apparently a waste of time.
In our modern world, every last vestige of trust is being abused. Government bureaucracy is an increasingly-visible problem, and a lot of it is insulation to protect lobbied interests, but some of it is a good-faith reaction to the way various actors abuse trust in a market. Eventually, there will be no trust left in society, whether due to law or personal technology. Apple would do well to take the lead on better ways to handle this on the personal side.
yup, anyone who knows me knows to email if they want a reply, and that I only take calls by appointment. Leave a message and I might call back, otherwise my phone's not on me, doesn't ring if the caller isn't in my contacts and doesn't even have cell reception most of the time.
