Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
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Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
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Re: Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
#2Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
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#3I'm glad something is being done and it's being reported. But it's only one guy, and there's an epidemic of these annoying calls. My elderly father gets dozens of them a week on his landline, and I get a spoofed number at least once a day, from an exchange very similar to my own.
It's funny how freedom of speech is considered in light of for-profit stuff like this (in the Bloomberg article it was the misleading nature of the calls, not the calls themselves), but not with regards to stuff like hate speech and political speech.
In an ethical world, it would be time for a flip: heavily regulate the commercial elements of speech.
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#4I've frequently wondered why, in this day and age, telcos are permitted to provide telephone service without any guarantee whatsoever of the originating phone number being accurate.
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#5I've frequently wondered why, in this day and age, telcos are permitted to provide telephone service without any guarantee whatsoever of the originating phone number being accurate.
Their lobby is powerful, and the ideology of many in tech leans to libertarian and away from regulation.
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#6I've frequently wondered why, in this day and age, telcos are permitted to provide telephone service without any guarantee whatsoever of the originating phone number being accurate.
I suppose they have even less incentive than internet service providers have to implement BCP 38 spoofing protection.
If it made business sense to do this, it would happen. Until then, it probably won't. Perhaps serving millions of robocalls are more profitable than the number of consumers who will totally cancel their telephone service as a result of them.
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#7Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
> I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
I've had to do the same. I sometimes get three calls and voicemails per day about business loans. I'm pretty sure they got my number by scraping the LLC filings for my state :\.
I wish I would of used a Google Voice number rather than my cell.
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#8In the US we just had congressional hearings over Facebook.
While Zuckerberg walked a fine line and performed as well as anyone could under such situation, I was left disappointed.
He (more or less) took a beating from congress without ever pointing the finger back at them, or at the telecom industry, or the NSA, or anyone else who is breaking trust and downright abusing existing platforms and ignoring privacy.
Robo calls are straight up scams. They're on the rise, and they're not being given any attention. This is indeed hopefully the first domino to fall, that will bring this to an end.
For those interested in these these scam calls, there's a guy on Twitch (live right now) who streams reverse scamming these centers and taking up their time.
Re: Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
#9Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
> I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
I have considered enabling a feature that blocks all calls unless the caller is in my contacts list but I am concerned about missing something important.
Any thoughts on this?
Re: Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
#10Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
I agree. I receive at least one a day. It's more frequent than spam mail. I'm sure there is a viable business venture to basically make "spam assassin" for telecom. I've gotten to the point where I don't trust anyone calling from a non-local exchange that isn't returning one of my calls, because for the past 8 months 90% have been scam calls.