eli5: Why is it so hard to fight robo/spam calls in the US?

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Someone or company is selling their product/service, why can’t the government go after these people? Seems easy-peasy.

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Most of these call centers operate outside of the US in countries that don’t police scam call centers as much. Thats why they are more common there.

They are pretty hard to stop. They have tons of phone numbers and those get shut down all the time but they just use a new one. They are usually making the calls through a computer program so they use a vpn which makes it harder to trace them. It doesn’t take crazy computer skills to edit the vpn a little or make your own which makes it exponentially harder to track. The us government already can get thru any popular vpn. Now they can’t just run it through a computer program, they have to spend time getting through it. Obviously they can but it makes it a good bit more effort.

Even if they do find their location, they will just move. They will just change their ip. There isn’t really any good or easy way to stop them. The us government can’t arrest them or disincentivize it nearly as easily. The only real way to stop it would be to monitor phone calls and use ai

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