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Is anyone else getting a crazy amount of spam/scam calls today I am receiving over 20 of them a day so far. I am already signed up for the do not call Registry and my phone is supposed to detect them. I am get both international and Canadian calls. Even though I have blocked all the numbers they still keep coming.  
 
What is really strange is that 2 weeks ago I had zero... I have called Bell and they don't have any original idea's.. I am seriously considering on getting a new number.. I have had this number for over 25 years.

I only answer my phone when it is from someone on my contact list. If they don't leave a message, I block them. Problem solved.

I had this happen once and I shut my phone off for around 15 minutes and it returned to normal.

I do the same. I never answer my phone if I don’t recognize the number. Then, if they don’t leave a message, I block the number. Problem solved, I no longer get any more spam calls.

I have noticed a serious uptick in spam generally - email, phone and text- since that Windows Crowdstrike outage a couple weeks ago. Like, starting that day. It's been very annoying. Probably a ten-fold increase. I don't even bother answering my phone anymore.

The crowd strike thing has absolutely nothing to do with phones.

The problem with blocking numbers is that they spoof any number including your area code. The results are that you are blocking a number that may not even exist. I have found that answering the phone but do not speak would cause a charge to the person doing it and they stop. But another will will soon be calling. You can also block the number after they hang up.

usually it's a robo call and never speaks, so we just delete the call  
Problem is that a number of businesses, MPI claims included, do not subscribe to caller display, Neepawa emergency messaging is another. We have had calls from banks that do not display a name.  
Maybe the 'phone companies should be made to verify the number before connecting to us, but wait, that will cost them money.  
Maybe we could submit a list of numbers that we will accept calls from, but that would mean extra storage that will cost the companies.  
Off subject slightly, why do the banking/financial institutions not agree to automatically recall funds where a person has been scammed, the last in the line will be the one holding the loss as they did not do due diligence on the account holder, or is that too simple.  
Just my thoughts.

I didn't necessarily say that it did, just that I noticed a significant uptick of spam of all sorts since that day, including that day. It's actually documented in the news that spammers were trying to take advantage of the outage, but beyond that I have no idea beyond noticing the correlation (which does not equal causation). It's possible that something "broke" that is letting all these calls and spams go through were they were blocked before.