I’ve had the same phone number since 1992. It’s public, on my website. It’s in everyone’s database. Yesterday I spoke with an organisation that I hadn’t dealt with since 1998, they had it and knew my name (and when I got licensed, the reason for my call).

My phone is on silent 100% of the time.

All blocked caller ID goes direct to voicemail. The only time I actually get a voicemail from these calls is when it’s a stupid robot or a human who actually needs to speak with me, the rest of the time I get nothing.

I can see a future where we get to the point where we’re uncontactable because there’s so much spam and fraud.

I think that the onus is on telcos to stamp this out, but it’s all income generating, so they don’t have any financial incentives to fix this.