Increased spam since signing in during covit?

Lately I have been getting heaps of spam phone calls and emails on my personal phone and email. It must be from all these sign ins I have been doing when eating out.

Anyone experiancing the same?

 

@Terry_w my phone! I have been using a phone to sign in that only a very few people have ever had the number for. I have been thinking the same thing

 

Yep same here. Just the other day got a call on my mobile from lovely sounding lady telling me my Telstra internet will be disconnected in 30 minutes unless I blah blah blah

First time I got these calls on my mobile. I then went and had some tandoori chicken with naan bread.

 

Not sure if it is a coincidence but all my email subscription cancellations that I did last year all seemed to be reinstated during covid times. Can't comment on the calls as it has been switched off while overseas.

 

Is that your Mobile? Lucky you, punishment for eating out!
We havent been eating out much, but certainly have lots and lots of calls on both our mobiles.
I dont answer unknown phone numbers anymore, which is sad but 99% are scams.
Some of them even have the audacity to leave messages to say that there is a pending legal case against me!
We disconnect our landline which we have a lovely number. this one is 99.99999% scam calls!

Oh so cranky! You think surely someone can do something about it by now.

 

Have your "do not call register" listings expired?

 

Do people often tell you to Gee Off?

 

on my phone suspected spam calls come up red with a warning. Not sure how that happens.

 

Trend micro? I have trend micro on mine. It also checks links in messages

 

If i am getting call and no voicemail is left, I block it and report spam

 

i have a google pixel, which apparently people can notify that a caller is spam and then it notifies others that the number calls as well. a bit like google gmail I guess.

 

On one covid sign In form for a restaurant i had to specifically tick a box to “opt out” of my information being used for marketing purposes. Though that was rather cheeky

 

Same here however if the number isn't flagges spam before it won't pick it up as spam!

 

my wife kept getting calls from a spammer pretending to be telstra when she didn't have any accounts with them. i got on the call once pretending to be her and they asked for her DOB so I said 30th of Feb, and they kept going not picking it up. I hang up before it went too far.

 

This would have to have been the 20th identical email I've received since 30th June ... seriously ... do people fall for this rubbish?

 

old people tend to

 

Oi watch it sonny!

 

Define old ....