they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.
Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.
there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones
> Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)
1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.
2) entirely block that area code.
That takes care of 98% of it.
...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.