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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 126 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Newly re-elected New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was talking to a supporter on his mobile phone when another call came in.

"I didn't recognize the number, so I didn't take it," Key told a New Zealand television station.

Only later did aides tell Key who was trying to reach him: President Obama.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/09/22/obama-john-key-new-zealand-phone-call/16057707/

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?

[–] WillySpreadum@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Even if it said "President Obama" many people would think it's a prank.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 6 points 7 months ago

True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn't be quite so unbelievable.

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[–] StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

That's what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who'd only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's called USA Today. That means you're only supposed to read the news that came out today.

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[–] arvere@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess I should start answering... what if it's Obama?

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't bother, if they can't leave a message, you didn't want to talk to them.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

And if they leave a message, I won't listen to it. Text me instead.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

I actually can’t make or receive phone calls because it’s too stressful and unpleasant, so probably don’t bother x

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And if they text me, I won’t read it. Just don’t bother.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

Nah, you gotta loop back around. "If it was important, they would've called."

[–] Killer@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Can't leave a message if i don't set up my voicemail

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

My voicemails get transcribed to text, so I can just read them

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 68 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that'd be great.

[–] Darkmuch@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I was called by my own phone number once. Nothing suspicious there.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago

Back in my day we used to just talk to ourselves in person.

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

You missed out, bro. It was you from the future calling to warn you of your dire fate and how to avoid it.

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That’s true but they usually spoof some person I don’t know. So if I google it and it’s some Betty from East Bumfuck, I know not to pick up. Now, if they spoofed someone I know, that’s different.

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just make the G Assistant answer it

9 times out of 10 telling an AI voice who's calling and why is too hard for even a normal human to figure out so they hang up and now there's nothing to worry about!

[–] DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Mr google, please add a "search this number online" button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I'm slow typer

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I want to be able to search the phone numbers in maps. Searching Google sucks because of all the algorithm gaming scam sites. I just want to know if this number is a local business I might actually want to talk to.

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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ten of the last twelve incoming calls on my phone were scam numbers. I haven't had the ringer or vibrate turned on for my phone for months so I never notice them. My phone does a pretty good job of blocking them and an outstanding job blocking spam texts

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I work for a phone company, it's pretty satisfying seeing all the hard work actually be useful for society.

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you answer and it's a scam then they know you'll pick up the phone in the future.

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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better

[–] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Holy shit I think a scammer company is using my phone number as a fake employee contact number.

[–] Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just answer the phone with the greeting of someone who's not me.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly as it should be. I haven't changed my greeting since I started at my current job so it still says the previous employees name lol. Plus I left my desk phone in my previous cube so I don't actually have a phone at all.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

I mix it up, scammers have an automated system that goes "vwoop" when you say "hello" so I'll answer as if I'm answering the phone from some fictional business of some sort.

The scammer will hang up and then call again. wash rinse repeat a few times and then I don't get any calls on my real phone number from scammers for awhile.

You know they share information with each other on facebook and other services owned by facebook. So all their scammer groups stay open, but if you say that there were never any WMDs in iraq on facebook, or if you question any official narrative about anything at all on facebook, or do any real journalism through facebook, your entire account will be erased from it.

meanwhile, scammers have hundreds if not thousands of groups on facebook that exist for the sole purpose of sharing victim's information with each other for a profit and facebook does absolutely nothing at all to put a stop to that.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 7 months ago

I have the maximum AI call screening option on with my Pixel 8. Real people actually tell it who they are, machines and telemarketing pricks hang up immediately upon hearing the AI.

[–] mycathas9lives@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I keep a browser window open exclusively for Googling phone numbers. This is way more common than I realized.

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[–] pommes@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ich habe das Skype jajajaj

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm kind of lucky on this front. I got my phone number when I lived in L.A. and later moved (back) to Indiana. My phone number is a California number. I basically know no one in California at this point who would call me on the phone if they wanted to get in touch. So if the area code isn't from Indiana, except in special circumstances, it most likely is a call I can ignore.

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[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I used to use that for ages, but the constant ads made me uninstall it

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[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I literally did this the order day because a phone number called twice in 2 days and bypassed my Pixel's spam filter. All the sites for googling phone numbers are all scams it looks like. Anyone know a good one?

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