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I got a spam call seemingly “from Verizon” (their main number) on my Verizon phone. I called them and told them and they said “oh yeah that happens all the time don’t pick up when we call” That’s when I realized we’ll never win. The spammers have won.
That’s bad. I do know T-Mobile blocks calls to their phones spoofing the 1-800-TMOBILE number as of a few years ago.
It's so funny(?) that we passed the TCPA in order to stop robocalls, but then never decided to actually enforce it.
Who is we? The US government is controlled by multinational corporations.
As far as oversimplifying political hypotheses go, this is a stupid one. Multinational corporations have fragmented power structures. They're broadly owned, publicly audited and subject to coups through market-based means.
If you want a secret cabal, America's emerging aristocracy is at least concentrated, opaque and difficult to dislodge.
I wish we could euthanize this garbage, antiquated phone system. It shouldn't be expected/required that every adult has a phone number when the system is so irredeemably broken and dangerous. If the web didn't have HTTPS, it would be illegal to conduct sensitive business over it. Yet we're stuck with this entrenched telephone system, the best we can do is STIR/SHAKEN, and that's not real security.
100%. My son got sick at school last week and I ignored the call from the school nurse because I have been so thoroughly conditioned by daily scam calls to ignore any unrecognized number. It’s insane that this is still a problem.
I've been reporting spam calls and texts to the FCC for a few years now. Does it do anything? I don't know, certainly not immediately, and the problem persists. I tried the method spelled out here for my latest batch of "Your USPS package has arrived" texts, but the phone numbers (example: +63 936 631 6676) just give an "invalid number" response. Not unexpected. Every official channel seems to be failing us on this o…
there's some impressive anti-scammer youtube content, and it seems to be a growing trend, maybe this is just capitalism doing what it does best? advertisers putting money in front of combative interventions.
Use iPhone focus feature, whitelisting contacts phone calls. Just need to manually add notifications from frequent contacts. Works pretty well.
We need to stop trying to get end users to deploy ad-hoc solutions to the problem and update our phone systems to be resilient to these attacks.
It already takes me 45 minutes of my time to get a hold of a support person of my own carrier and I'm a paying customer. I commend the effort, but getting a human to answer a support hotline call in order to report a spammer number is so comically difficult and ineffective that I can't see a significant amount of people participating. Why doesn't my carrier have an automated system allowing them to communicate with t…
Because contrary to the page, they don't really care about the spam that much. Now, if more people started calling the support for every spam they get... that would translate to some real cost.
Also, the more spammers reported the less to bill for the calls. As less spam calls.
I wish we could euthanize this garbage, antiquated phone system. It shouldn't be expected/required that every adult has a phone number when the system is so irredeemably broken and dangerous. If the web didn't have HTTPS, it would be illegal to conduct sensitive business over it. Yet we're stuck with this entrenched telephone system, the best we can do is STIR/SHAKEN, and that's not real security.
100%. My son got sick at school last week and I ignored the call from the school nurse because I have been so thoroughly conditioned by daily scam calls to ignore any unrecognized number. It’s insane that this is still a problem.
My solution since 2002: don't answer the phone.
The amount of spam I get since I left Googles old number service is insane. Whats worse is some will say reply stop to stop and just send you more bullshit.
most of the time, STOP, UNSUBSCRIBE (or clicking any link) marks the phone number or email as hot, and gets sold for more money in the market.