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AFAIK it is hardly a problem in The Netherlands. I can't imagine it is totally different for our direct neighbours ( other EU countries ).

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In Germany it's a department of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency who deal with complaints. They can switch off a phone number and give 300.000 Euro fines against companies.

Year 2020: 40k complaints about 18k phone numbers (12% from outside Germany) for predictive dialing. 155k complaints about phone spam (company trying to sell you something). 1.3 million Euros in fines. https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Vportal/AnfragenBeschwer...

I received one spam call in 2020.

Do you think government regulation is the reason you didn’t get scam calls? Or is it more likely that the Indian and Pakistani scammers can’t speak German and therefor don’t target Germany?

In Germany it is a problem, but more subtle. We have things like "Münzkontor", things like "Enkeltrick" which target old people with their scams.

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