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I have way too many things I need to answer that I don't know the number of, and/or get mislabeled by the phone company, to do that, or trust "scam likely".
My primary care physician's office is scam likely My neurosurgeon's office is scam likely My neurologist's office is scam likely
I have a feeling the phone company, or whoever they get those labels from, might just be putting any number for a business name, linked to an Indian name, as "scam likely". They don't get my Orthopedic surgeon's office wrong, or my nephrologist's, or my endocrinologist's, or my podiatrist's and those are ones with European names. Everyone else, scam likely, even ones I didn't list here, everyone else are doctors from India/Indian decent.
I also get a lot of calls from government phones, and other private businesses, that just show "unknown", or a number I don't recognize, but are important for me to answer. I don't know these numbers ahead of time, because they don't know who is going to call me back when these contacts are arraigned.
Such crude racism.
And it explains why Indian customer service agents always use European names. I don't want to come off as racist but sometimes I have been amused by a heavy Indian accent introducing themselves with a very traditional European name.
It shouldn't be funny, because it's all because of racism and imperialism and colonialism.
But I can't help being amused sometimes when I'm drunk. I shouldn't. But I have been.
Fuck racism.
Like, I am pretty sure this is what is happening. I don't have good proof, and my sample size is small, but the coincidence is stretched enough to be suspect. They claim that places like hospital, and other professional networks, get these because when they buy groups of phone numbers for their PBX systems, sometimes they were owned, or used by, scammers.
There are programs now that if they have like 12 seconds of audio of your doctor talking they can recreate it in ai and call you and ask you for anything they want. From pretty much any number they want.
I basically do mail only unless I initiate the call myself.
all of my calls that have HIPAA protected information require I type in a pin number before the call can continue, and in a couple places that send my phone on file a text with a password/number. So I am not that worried about that one. Still crazy though, and makes sense why they implemented this.