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I'm not saying I never get spam calls, but I certainly have to scroll back quite a bit in my phone call history to see the last one.
Also, on the rare occasion I do get a spam call it's always from some random international country like South Sudan or Oman that I would never expect a phone call from.
What makes this problem uniquely hard to solve for the USA as opposed to anywhere else?
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After 15 years of cell phone spam, anything that shows up as a number on my personal phone, and not a contact, is reflexively ignored. I don't think I'll ever shake this habit: if it is important, they will leave a message.
I've pushed that reflex further : if it's important, the information will find its way to me.
In the above scenario that happened to me, sometimes you just don't have time to let the information find you.
Will this also prevent spoofed text messages?
I have never received a spoofed SMS message so I already thought this was impossible.
"The FCC has also called on the industry to “trace back” illegal spoofed calls and text messages to their original sources."
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I've pushed that reflex further : if it's important, the information will find its way to me.
"Hi jimmy, this is your mother. My phone died so I am calling you from the hospital phone. Your dad is in the hospital. Come quick." In the above scenario that happened to me, sometimes you just don't have time to let the information find you.
Why is this problem unique to the USA? I'm not saying I never get spam calls, but I certainly have to scroll back quite a bit in my phone call history to see the last one. Also, on the rare occasion I do get a spam call it's always from some random international country like South Sudan or Oman that I would never expect a phone call from. What makes this problem uniquely hard to solve for the USA as opposed to anywhe…
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"Hi jimmy, this is your mother. My phone died so I am calling you from the hospital phone. Your dad is in the hospital. Come quick." In the above scenario that happened to me, sometimes you just don't have time to let the information find you.
That would suck, but fear of that scenario isn't enough to make me answer my phone for spammers 5 times a day.
Why is this problem unique to the USA? I'm not saying I never get spam calls, but I certainly have to scroll back quite a bit in my phone call history to see the last one. Also, on the rare occasion I do get a spam call it's always from some random international country like South Sudan or Oman that I would never expect a phone call from. What makes this problem uniquely hard to solve for the USA as opposed to anywhe…
Embedded corporate interests and lobbies fighting against solutions because it'll cost them money to implement or lower their revenue once implemented. The usual.
Why is this problem unique to the USA? I'm not saying I never get spam calls, but I certainly have to scroll back quite a bit in my phone call history to see the last one. Also, on the rare occasion I do get a spam call it's always from some random international country like South Sudan or Oman that I would never expect a phone call from. What makes this problem uniquely hard to solve for the USA as opposed to anywhe…
Would you decide to set it up to call over 40 different countries in europe? Each with their own way to show phone numbers.. each carrier attempting to block spam calls in different ways.. each country virtually speaking a different language.. most countries having some different banking/credit card systems..
Or would you target the united states which everyone in the country has the same phone prefix, pretty much all speak one language, banking/credit card system is the same, etc.
It just makes sense for scammers to target the US. You can target hundreds of millions of people the exact same way.