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Finally, although there are still more than a year to wait. Hope there won't be any extension to this deadline. Before that, I'll keep allowing calls from my contacts only, and bear the miserable inconvenience that sometime my packages may take a month to arrive because of denials of calls from the delivery guy.
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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.
While this is a possible scenario- in my experience most people know to call multiple times - especially if they know that the recipient won’t recognize the number. I don’t usually answer my phone from unknown numbers, but when I get three calls from the same number within 3 minutes I’ll pick it up.
I'm surprised robocallers don't do this too
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…
I assume it's simply more worthwhile to create a fraudulent scheme aimed at a larger population with more potential marks.
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What do you use for an ID? Passport card? State issued ID?
It's generally a bad idea to carry your passport around just because it has your SSN printed on it
90% of my phone calls are from the same outfit informing me that this is my last chance to renew the extended warranty on my car. Based on my call history that recording is officially my best friend. And a very forgiving one given that it has been my last chance hundreds of times over the past several years. I hope this regulation won't interfere with our relationship.
100% of the spam calls on my work phone in the last six months have been trying to sell me Marriott time shares. I don't know if it's actually Marriott or not. I suspect it's just one of those "affiliate marketing" scumbags, but it still makes the brand look bad.
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What do you use for an ID? Passport card? State issued ID?
A non-driver's state ID works for everything you'd use a driver's license for except operating a motor vehicle. Even though people typically say, "Driver's license" when they really mean either kind of state-issued ID card.
Does this mean I can start answering my phone again? Are there other vectors for spam calling which are not addressed by this solution?
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.
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The issue is when I have a automated answering system (asterisk, for a museum). It rattles off some prerecorded info, possibly with prompting. To talk to a human, I need to forward the caller (I.e. call and set up a voice bridge since the caller is already connected to me) to one of our volunteers, which will be to their cell phone (we are a railway museum and we don't have a staffed office on weekdays). I want to fo…
This should still be available, though it will likely take some work from the underlying software provider to be compliant. The goal of the regulation is to cut down spam/scam calling, not legitimate uses, and the telecom providers know these uses and lobby heavily to make sure they'll still be allowed to work. The telecom providers don't like scam calls either, or more specifically they don't like short calls. All t…
Based on the given situation, the museum won't own the caller's cell phone number that they're trying to legitimately spoof for their staff's cell phone.
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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.
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…