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he didn’t lose any of them. the ones that are “lost” are with guardians related to them that refuse to answer the phone because they are probably illegal. look it up
Let’s Destroy Robocalls
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#22Shoutout to Google and their "Screen Call" feature in android. I screen every call from an unrecognized number. If I see it's my Doctors office I pick up. If not, mark as spam. I can do this in the middle of a meeting without interrupting anything.
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#23Our company actually has a really good view into where robocalls are coming from and what they are doing because we own a tremendous amount of phone numbers in the US (100s of thousands - millions at peak). We can basically see when this is happening and a robo-caller is targeting an area code, zip code, state, etc... When we get called from a number we don't know we used to simply reject the call. Now, as of this we…
Which company?
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#24Hiya handles this for me so it's not a problem https://hiya.com/. It will block spam calls and whitelist contacts. It's kind of annoying that the caller can still leave a voicemail but at least you don't get bothered by your phone ringing.
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#25Haha. 10 years ago the carriers were flogging the voip ISPs over putative origination fraud and _robocalls_. Lots of us in the industry proposed solutions(mine)[1]. We also built some interesting and very effective ML systems to detect the originators in real time.
Here we are 10 years later no further down the road. Sad.
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#26Lots of feel good ideas in the post, but no actual good ideas. Back when Congress created the Do Not Call Registry, and then forced law abiding companies to pay $10,000 for it, they pretty much just compiled an amazing list of active phone numbers that non-law abiding companies could acquire for a pretty good price and then sell them in batches to smaller companies that couldn't afford the full thing.
Once virtual phone services were invented, companies didn't even have to worry about dodging the Feds, they just moved all their operations overseas. Feel good laws will not solve this problem, it's going to take actual technological solutions.
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#27Our company actually has a really good view into where robocalls are coming from and what they are doing because we own a tremendous amount of phone numbers in the US (100s of thousands - millions at peak). We can basically see when this is happening and a robo-caller is targeting an area code, zip code, state, etc... When we get called from a number we don't know we used to simply reject the call. Now, as of this we…
Which company?
Hustle https://www.hustle.com/
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#28Good luck ever fixing SS7. Just abandon it, seriously... If you can. Your life will be easier.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We all, left and right, agree that Trump is worse than robocalls. I'm having trouble imagining Republicans have have >89% support for robocalls, so I have doubts of your proposed left-right consensus on Trump vs. robocalls. https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra...
> I'm having trouble imagining Republicans have have >89% support for robocalls Really? Why though? I would assume they do. Robocalls are the maximum free-market ideal communication / ad mechanism. Aren't Republicans constantly trying to get less regulation in the US? Constantly removing laws around protecting consumers from this stuff? I would assume most Republicans are in favor of Robocalls.
You must not talk to many Republicans.
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#30I've always been impressed with how professional they sound. I want to know where is this seedy marketplace of robocall scam companies and desperate voice actors.