>create Google Voice number >get no calls for 12+ months >give the number to Quickbooks when they ask me to verify my identity >immediately start getting multiple spam calls every day
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I have two google voice numbers. They were created about 5 minutes apart, but other than that have no numeric or sequential relationship and are never used together. I regularly get the same spam attempt on them about 5 minutes apart. I assume Google is wholly compromised.

Oct 24, 2025 · 10:41 PM UTC

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Replying to @HeWhoHasNoName @awesomekling
they can just bruteforce-dial any number tbh
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Yeah, but these numbers aren't sequential. They weren't paid for with the same credit card. They always get called in the same order. *Only* Google knows they're proximate, and which one's first. Simplest explanation: Google sold their database of Voice numbers for advertising.
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Replying to @HeWhoHasNoName @awesomekling
Someone that you gave the numbers to sold your info, and someone else has both numbers on your account. It’s not google being compromised, it’s capitalism.
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I know enough about what's going on to know you're wrong, but I don't feel like dumping enough personal info into the public to prove my point. Congrats, I guess.
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Replying to @HeWhoHasNoName @awesomekling
I have a google voice number that I've kept for years that gets zero spam calls. It's only my number from my carrier that I use for everything that actually gets spam.
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I had these two for a while before it started. One I use openly. The other is basically unknown to the public. The fact that one always gets called first, then the other 5 minutes later - like, almost exactly the time lag between me registering them - is really really glaring.
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Replying to @HeWhoHasNoName @awesomekling
Honestly they’re run by indians now, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were selling info
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Replying to @HeWhoHasNoName @awesomekling
Ip address, shared wifi spot, or physical proximity of the devices they were made and used on. Even more so if it was made on a phone rather than pc.
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