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Jackson6612  +  348185 Sat, 07 Apr 07 06:39 PM

These days spam or spam e-mail is everyday word. After the cell phone became common in people's life, it is very frequent, especially for girls, to get spam phone calls from unknown people. Is spam phone call a right word to use?

Please rephrase the following sentence to make it sound better:

After the cell phone became common in people's life, it is very frequent, especially for girls, to get spam phone calls from unknown people.

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Lil' Ruby Rose  +  348193 Sat, 07 Apr 07 07:33 PM

After cell phones became common, it has similarly become common, especially for girls, to get spam phone calls from strangers.

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khoff  +  348274 Sun, 08 Apr 07 04:21 AM
If someone is deliberately harrassing girls (rather than calling many phones randomly, for instance, for advertising) it would be called a "crank call" in the U.S.
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Marvin A., 2 yr 231 days ago
Yes, the word "spam" is still restricted to e-mail.
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