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/
Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?
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.
Even if it said “President Obama” many people would think it’s a prank.
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.
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
That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen. Edit: **Re-**elected, I missed that. I guess the second option then.
I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?
Definitely don’t ghost Obama. He’ll drone strike your house.
Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.
And if they leave a message, I won’t listen to it. Text me instead.
I actually can’t make or receive phone calls because it’s too stressful and unpleasant, so probably don’t bother x
My voicemails get transcribed to text, so I can just read them
Can’t leave a message if i don’t set up my voicemail
If only spam callers were unable to spoof phone numbers that’d be great.
I was called by my own phone number once. Nothing suspicious there.
Heh that happened to me too! Very strange.
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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Mr google, please add a “search this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I’m slow typer
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.
Does the USA not have an official phone registry website? Where I live you just go on there and look up any number, person or company you want. It’s basically an online phonebook.
Not that I’ve found. There are plenty of ways to find a number of a business. But harder to find legitimate ways to find people’s numbers. And it’s almost impossible to reliably find the owner of a phone number.
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!
How would one do this?
Move to the US, basically.
Then no.
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
I work for a phone company, it’s pretty satisfying seeing all the hard work actually be useful for society.
Elaborate?
I also want to know more like the previous commenter. Automatic screening that I had with an old pixel phone was the best thing Google ever did for me back with a pixel 3.
I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better
If you answer and it’s a scam then they know you’ll pick up the phone in the future.
Holy shit I think a scammer company is using my phone number as a fake employee contact number.
I keep a browser window open exclusively for Googling phone numbers. This is way more common than I realized.
Where do you look up numbers. I only find scam sites
Just type the number into google. If it doesn’t come up with a number from a business or you don’t recognize it, just ignore it. Most of the time I just ignore calls, and if it’s important enough, they will leave a voicemail or text me.
This is the way
meanwhile Truecaller app
I used to use that for ages, but the constant ads made me uninstall it
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.
I have that exact same thing. Almost every spam call sellf identifies as a scam call
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?
Same, but Intelius
I use SEON and a CNAM database lookup API from Trellix - both free if under 100 requests/mo.
try fastpeoplesearch.com instead
