system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If we block robo-caller and spam callers that show spoofed phone numbers, are we blocking people's real phone numbers that we might actually want to talk to?
gpt
Yes, which is why the robocallers are using local area and prefix codes for the spoofed numbers they're "calling" from. Sadly, the best course of action is to mute the call and let it go to voicemail and pray that some day the telecoms can get their collective heads out their asses and put an end to this.