The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790

Post by dronestriker » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 8:28 AM UTC

colejohnson66 wrote: post #220

OliverJones wrote: post #96

Lots of these robocalls are fraudulent. They say nonsense like they're the FBI acting on behalf of the IRS, with a warrant for my arrest. If somebody ran a scam like that through the USPS, they'd become a guest of the US Bureau of Prisons for a few years. Internet DoSers get prison time too. But not these parasites. If the scammers are offshore, an arrest or two in the customs hall at an airport will get peoples' att…

The problem is also that a lot of them are not in the US. We can’t touch them usually.

Post by SapporoChris » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 9:03 AM UTC

lukebuehler wrote: post #274

A lot of people point out that telecom companies should do something but aren't because it's lucrative for them or too expensive to fix. Are telecom companies not realizing how much they are hurting themselves with this in the long term? People will stop using phone numbers altogether. Using the phone has become such a pain, at least in the US, that whenever I can, I used different ways of communicating. WhatsApp, iM…

Post by elyobo » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 10:24 AM UTC

cameldrv wrote: post #259

atoav wrote: post #244

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I got two unwanted robocalls in the last twenty years (central europe). This seems like a profoundly american issue.

Lucky you. Approximately no one in the countries that these calls originate from speaks any central European language, so they don't call.

Post by rlayton2 » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC

tooney712 wrote: post #327

Diesel555 wrote: post #310

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"Are telecom companies not realizing how much they are hurting themselves" After seeing cable companies fail to get into the internet, I'm convinced companies try to stop progress instead of embracing it. They don't see progress as an opportunity, but rather as a threat. They don't realize how much they are hurting themselves. I read an interesting article on here about the rise of the cell phone camera, the amount o…

The go to example of this will always be Kodak. Steven Sasson invented the first digital camera (and a device to display it on) in 1975 while working at R&D at Kodak. He had a fully functional DSLR by 1989, complete with memory cards. Kodak never released his work, never manufactured that camera. They kept the patent of the work and sat on it, and when others tried to innovate and create a digital camera, Kodak sued…

Post by coldpie » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 1:50 PM UTC

SapporoChris wrote: post #353

lukebuehler wrote: post #274

A lot of people point out that telecom companies should do something but aren't because it's lucrative for them or too expensive to fix. Are telecom companies not realizing how much they are hurting themselves with this in the long term? People will stop using phone numbers altogether. Using the phone has become such a pain, at least in the US, that whenever I can, I used different ways of communicating. WhatsApp, iM…

Many services and businesses will not do business with you if you do not have a phone number. The most common example would be delivery services, but there are many others. Have people been able to get around these limitations? and how is it done? I hate having a phone as much as anyone else.