Correct.
Very few calls are made by old fashion telephone solicitors anymore.
It’s all robocalls. Their latest gimmick is displaying false telephone prefixes to get you to think your getting a local call from your own neighborhood or prefix.
Example - if your telephone number is 555 723-8871 - then you will get 3-4 calls per week from 555 723-XXXX numbers.
All robocalls.
You can scream, curse, blow whistles, ask they put you on a do not call list - whatever. The bot does not care.
I get those all the time and learned very quickly to ignore them.
I got one that said it was the local fire department. I tried calling back our of curiosity and did not get the fire dept. I think it was disconnected number or something.
Most of those calls I get are still from real people.
Most of them are small contractors trying to sell me home repairs or a remodel on a house I haven’t lived in for 7 years.
They are always local to my old address, I just tell them to check the area code on the number they called.
They look and say 530, I ask them what their area code is and it is usually 213, 714, or 562.
I politely tell them that I am 647 miles away from the house they want to work on, and please remove my number from their calling list.
They are pretty good about it.