Someone or company is selling their product/service, why can’t the government go after these people? Seems easy-peasy.
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I finally answered one, listened for a few seconds, and then asked “So, what country are you from?” Haven’t had spam calls in months.
Because the calls originate from outside US territory and the international telephone system was built so insecurely that it could be manipulated with a toy whistle from a box of Captain Crunch cereal…..
The jurisdiction thing means that robo calling Americans from Russia is a risk free activity.
The nonexistent phone system security means you can make a call from Russia and either spoof the ID or use VOIP to make it appear ‘American’….
It’s virtually impossible to pursue crime, let alone harassment, from outside of the country. Since it’s easy to harass people on the other side of the world thanks to digital anonymity, especially if you perceive them to have more than you that they didn’t have to work as hard for, people with no better prospects will do it for personal gain.
If someone paid you like a real job to send spam to corporate CEOs you’ll never meet and who could do nothing to you in return, would you?
Can’t be that hard. I’m on Google Fi + pixel and spam messages are immediately filtered. Spam phone calls are identified and also filtered. Been this way for years now.
Because Republicans kept voting to block STIR/SHAKEN implementation. For instance, back when the TRACED bill which implemented that passed the House 417 to 3, two Republicans and one Independent who had switched from Republican five months earlier were the three nay votes.
Before that, until it got enough press, Republicans kept saying STIR/SHAKEN would hurt businesses. And they were right, it was designed to stop the spammers running spamming businesses, so yes it did hurt those businesses.
The one guy who voted against it in the Senate? Also a Republican.
My parents have had their landline since 2001 and the past 3 yrs now the only calls they get are spam calls ! That phone rings off the hook starting at 8-9am till 6-7pm. No matter what my dad does they keep calling. Can’t even block numbers anymore because they mask the number with a local number!
Lack of political will I suppose. I live in EU-Europe and these things don’t happen here. Sure there’s the occasional (every few weeks/months) scam call on the landline since that number is in the phone book, but overall it’s a non-issue. Also those scam callers are usually local.
Telco’s make more money with the calls then any fines they may see. No real incentive to stop them.
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