The latest in 2020 Gothic

[brin_bellway]

[arguably cw: illness]


Why do I keep getting calls from a variety of local-area-code phone numbers that are just a robotic feminine voice saying "Time to stay home. Stay safe and stay home." and hanging up?

They leave messages, too, if you don't pick up or your phone was turned off.

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[brin_bellway]

I just tried googling "'time to stay home' robocalls", and a bunch of other people are reporting them too. Nobody seems to know why, but what we do know is that the sender metadata is faked: the actual owners of those phone numbers are uninvolved.

(That sure does explain why a while back I got a somewhat testy voicemail from a guy wanting to know "who's been calling me on this number". Don't think I ever actually responded to him, and I'm not sure I even still have the voicemail. Well, at least now I know what to say to the next guy.)