# I may have found a way to take fewer spam calls

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-found-a-way-to-take-fewer-spam-calls/961525 "2022-03-22T20:03:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-found-a-way-to-take-fewer-spam-calls/961525/2 "2022-03-22T20:16:31Z")

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I answer my work phone by saying my department then my name. If met by silence, I follow up with the name of the government agency I work for. So far, no spammer has remained on the line after that.

STIR/SHAKEN has curtailed virtually all spam calls to our home number. We weren’t getting all that many calls, anyway, after [I got one group of “Windows” workers to hang up.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-waste-a-telephone-spammers-time/821292/12?)

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