• Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    (France) I’d say I get an average of 5 a week since the end of last year. Before that they were very uncommon.

    I’d love to know what shitty company is selling my number to these guys because I pay a fee to my operator to have it unlisted, so it is not publicly available…

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      5 months ago

      France too, I came back a few months ago and after a month.

      I had my number for years but suddenly after a month I started receiving a lot of spam. I would love to know who gave away my number too.

      At least now at the spam calls have to come from specific numbers so it’s easy to block.

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      5 months ago

      France is weirdly bad for spam calls. Also has the second highest percentage of anti-vaxers after the US

      There’s a connection there but I’m not seeing it

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        Tbh we are the OG anti vaxxers because of that one paper about the link between aluminum adjuvants in vaccines and autism IIRC. But that trend died down in the late 90’s and we imported the new and improved brand of anti vax movements from the US with the COVID…