article ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another
they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.
Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.
> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide
...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.
article ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another
they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.
Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.
"Robbers are mad that people started locking their doors"
there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones
All the solutions have become problems themselves now. Anyone feel in control of blocking spam calls? What do you do? Asking for an iOS-native guide.
Can try this for unknown numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106, most will just hang up
> Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)
Pretty easy.
1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.
2) entirely block that area code.
That takes care of 98% of it.
This is actually my solution
"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.
> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide
...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.
indeed. Looking at their consumption of self-help content may be my personal single biggest predictor of anxiety in people.