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.
Well to be fair I’d answer just to say “no you’re not!”
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.
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.
It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.
Oh, so it happened today. Makes it a lot less interesting now that Obama is not a president and hasn’t been in years.
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.
You missed out, bro. It was you from the future calling to warn you of your dire fate and how to avoid it.
I would’ve known to leave a voicemail
The thing is, there are legit reasons to want to spoof numbers. My use case is that if I’m not reachable via sip I send the call over the normal phone network and set cid to the calling number.
I guess a middle ground would be that you could spoof numbers to phone numbers you’ve registered and verified with your provider.
To be honest though, the scammers and spammers will always find a way round it and spoof anyway.
Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.
I fucking love not answering my phone. It makes me feel powerful like god or better
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.
Do you habe Skype, Doc?
Ich habe das Skype jajajaj
Why Google it when Android tells you who’s calling?
Android doesn’t, I think this is a Pixel feature. Source: my junk ass Samsung
Certain Samsung’s have Hiya integration for this kind of thing. In the dialler settings there might be an option for “Caller ID and Spam Protection”.
Mr google, please add a “search this number online” button for incoming calls. Sometimes I miss a call because I’m slow typer
I think hiya does this.
Samsung phones use their service to identify incoming callers.
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?
The site for googling is google, man.
