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This could work for email spam, as well.
Bonus if people get to set their own postage rates.
Never knew you could contract it has into it's as well.
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This is a market-based problem rather than a policy problem: The problem is the low cost of making calls. Make calls cost money and the problem will naturally go away.
No, this is a problem where the necessary resources used to punish white collar crime are not being allocated. If there was a known Florida-based drug dealer that was bringing in $120,000,000 of drugs/year, there'd be dozens of cops working around the clock to bring him in. A Florida-based robo-caller, fined $120,000,000, who isn't paying a penny? Nobody cares. I understand lack of enforcement against some robocall f…
Stop allowing spoofed numbers. Period. I'm sorry BigCorp, but this is a public nuisance and trumps your "need" for a single phone number.
Honestly I'm surprised they've managed to collect that much. Good job guys.
This is a market-based problem rather than a policy problem: The problem is the low cost of making calls. Make calls cost money and the problem will naturally go away.
I'm not even sure that raising the floor cost of making calls would help because scammers only have to swindle a single person out of thousands of dollars to offset the costs. :(
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This is a market-based problem rather than a policy problem: The problem is the low cost of making calls. Make calls cost money and the problem will naturally go away.
I think the problem is that it's possible to spoof called ID. The fraud starts before you answer the phone. Caller ID used to be an extra charge. The telcos needed it not to be mandatory. But now my land line is going away because it's become nothing but an annoyance. They could have prevented that but... but...
So even if you track someone down, what will you do if they are dirt poor?
There needs to be postage imposed on connecting calls between systems, payable to the person called, and potentially refundable upon lack of complaint for being unsolicited. This could work for email spam, as well. Bonus if people get to set their own postage rates.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a market-based problem rather than a policy problem: The problem is the low cost of making calls. Make calls cost money and the problem will naturally go away.
No, this is a problem where the necessary resources used to punish white collar crime are not being allocated. If there was a known Florida-based drug dealer that was bringing in $120,000,000 of drugs/year, there'd be dozens of cops working around the clock to bring him in. A Florida-based robo-caller, fined $120,000,000, who isn't paying a penny? Nobody cares. I understand lack of enforcement against some robocall f…
You don’t need a lot of money to spam calls.
It wasn’t always this way, and getting random BS calls almost never happened back then.