Phone calls from Belgium

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Anyone else getting spamming phone calls from Belgium? I'm getting at least one call daily despite blocking the numbers they just call on a different line.

Very annoying.
 
My son gets presumably scam/spam calls ostensibly from all sorts of countries. He just doesn't answer them and blocks the numbers. I haven't had many nuisance calls recently myself.
 
I received 3 calls from Belgian landlines on 3 separate days late Jan, early Feb.

My policy, like yours it seems, is ignore and then block.

I will always assume the worst in instances like this and advise my kids to do likewise.
 
3 a month in Oct/Nov/Dec

1 in 2025.

I don't answer and don't block. Phone is on silent all the time anyway (highly recommended).
 
Not from Belgium but I got a spate of these from Luxembourg about a year or so ago. Obviously this must have been to target the more discerning end of the market.:)
 
tomdublin said:
Has anyone ever answered them?
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Was expecting a call from that neck of the woods so answered it.There was a 20 second silence than a youngish girl told me they were calling about a crypto account I appear to have forgotten about.

She used my first name which was a bit worrying.

Didn't bother with chit chat, don't have any crypto nor likely ever will so hung up on her scammy banter.
 
tomdublin said:
Has anyone ever answered them?
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Apparently they are using AI to minic your voice, so it's not adviseable to talk with them at all. However, I was getting multiple calls from a european number a few months ago and eventually, I answered "Ola Ola....No Ingles" in a high-pitched, chirpy way and the calls stopped!
 
Firefly said:
using AI to minic your voice
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That's scary...so if they have data on you, they can ring people you know and pretend to be you....

It's so normal to answer a call with a simple "Hello". I dont answer calls from random foreign numbers or numbers I don't recognise. I had two calls from Belgium, one mid-Dec, the other mid-Jan.
 
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On the odd occasion when I do answer an unexpected call I often say nothing and wait for the caller to go first.
Amusing when it's a genuine call and the caller is a bit confused by the silence. :)
 
I'm getting them all the time. I answered one and it was a person in Belgium that had a missed call from me. I suspect our numbers are being used by scammers to make those fake revolut calls.
 
Firefly said:
Apparently they are using AI to minic your voice, so it's not adviseable to talk with them at all.
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Yeah, according to a friend of mine, they are ringing the contacts of a phone they've hacked starting a conversation with you so as to get your voice
Then they try and connect your name with other names on the contacts list and do the emergency call where they ask them to send money
Don't know if it's true or not but sounds plausible enough so don't talk to them if possible
 
This Belgian scam has gone on for months. Makes you wonder whether authorities are really serious about stopping it. Surely they could have traced those calls by now and identified the criminals involved.
 
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