The US Do Not Call registry is offline
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The US Do Not Call registry is offline
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Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline
#2I fully expected that this registry is an automated system.
I'm struggling to understand why this system would be offline while the FTS website is still online: https://www.ftc.gov/
Is there a technical reason for the registry to go offline, or is it an intentional casualty of the power struggle in DC?
Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline
#3Does the do not call system actually work?
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#4Considering I still get a ton of spam calls, I really wonder how well it worked in the first place.
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#5Considering I still get a ton of spam calls, I really wonder how well it worked in the first place.
Start answering them and try to string them along as long as possible. That’s the only way you can send a signal that calling this number is actively unprofitable.
Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.
Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline
#6I fully expected that this registry is an automated system. I'm struggling to understand why this system would be offline while the FTS website is still online: https://www.ftc.gov/ Is there a technical reason for the registry to go offline, or is it an intentional casualty of the power struggle in DC?
If you look at the wayback machine, it was offline with a similar message during the 2013 and 2018/2019 shutdowns, too.
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#7Considering I still get a ton of spam calls, I really wonder how well it worked in the first place.
Start answering them and try to string them along as long as possible. That’s the only way you can send a signal that calling this number is actively unprofitable. Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.
But my time is valuable… but I would pay OpenAI's V2V rates for the privilege of stringing along scammers. I need a button “transfer to time waster agent”.
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#8Does the do not call system actually work?
Doubt it. I used it for several years and then forgot one year. Same amount of spam. Decided to see how it would go if I stopped and I see no difference in the amount of spam calls since.
Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline
#9That’ll save all the spam callers a little time not checking and then ignoring it.
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#10Didn’t work anyway