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Because it's the 1950s, and it must be someone calling from the local exchange, probably the butcher's down the street at KLondike-0130...

For the same reason spam contains misspelled words and grammatical errors. If this turns you away, you aren’t the target audience.

I suspect that argument will win the day for about 15 microseconds, before everyone adapts and they're on to the next idiotic tactic.

That's my biggest source of callspam right now. So close to writing an iOS call blocker that just blocks those except a whitelist (though I think they automatically whitelist contacts with that API).

WinCE (lol) had a feature that would let you change the ringer for unknown numbers.

I could tell instantly, without picking up the phone, if I knew that person.

Wish my current phone had that.

At my old office, we bought phone numbers in blocks, so there was a good chance that if the first six digits matched, it was somebody from the office calling.