The FCC is cracking down on 'auto warranty' robocalls
cnn.comOne big question still remains open:
> Why can't they crack down on all robocalls? It's become a persistent (or at least seasonal) annoyance.
Very harmful to the utility of the entire phone system.
It's still the wild west today, like pre-gmail email. The private sector mostly solved email spam more than 20 years ago. The fact that phone spam is still happening means something isn't working right in telco land.
And no, I don't want to pay a [super offensive] recurring extra monthly fee to the duopoly mafia that is AT&T and Verizon in order to stop or "fight" the spam calls. The duopolists are already receiving a substantial amount of money every month from each subscriber!
The current state of affairs is upsetting.
p.s.
This has been posted multiple times this week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32194227 2 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32187228 1 comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186971 1 comment
Glad to see it finally maybe catching some attention!
Yeah, better, ban all the telephone cold calls. Noone answers them anyways...
For the fairness, compared to emails, I guess this one's a bit harder one to solve -- There are bit of context to work with -- address, contents, etc., and there are so many to classify and get feedback against. (To be able to effectively filter therm, it'll need a lot of spams, as well as non-spams!)
Screening phone calls is hard, considering those systems can only work with a phone number which may be spoofed (although, with STIR/SHAKEN, this is increasingly getting some attention). There's a lot of privacy implications (and perhaps a bit of legal implications) to be able to scan contents of the call.
I've gotten these calls for years. What's different about this this time and why won't it simply continue by some other pseudo-groups or entities in the future?
1) Nothing 2) It will continue
Purely anecdotal but I've had some success answering these calls and asking to be put on their do not call list. There was one that called me multiples times per day for weeks and left 30 second voicemails each time. I ignored them thinking at some point they'd give up or think the number wasn't active but the calls kept coming. It wasn't until I actually answered one and told them not to call me anymore that the calls stopped. It seems like the general advice is to ignore these calls but anecdotally I've never found that strategy to work.
Interesting. I seem to have had the opposite experience. I tried the method you're suggesting for a while, but there always seemed to be a flurry of additional calls after answering one. I thought that maybe the answered call was noted somehow as indicating that the number was valid. Completely anecdotal, just my $0.02.
It seems to depend on the business that's doing the calling I guess. I had one that I answered and the person literally laughed at me and hung up so YMMV.
Use the DoNotPay feature to give them a fake card and then DNP files a complaint. Get paid. Easy
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