Same here, does anyone know what the heck is going on? Why has there been such a surge in the past year or two? My uncle was an early supporter of Ooma and my

Same here, does anyone know what the heck is going on? Why has there been such a surge in the past year or two? My uncle was an early supporter of Ooma and my parents have a box that provides their landline number that they've had for 25+ years, and they don't pay anything in terms of a monthly fee. In spite of how great of a deal it is, the spam calls have gotten to be so bad that my parents are considering getting rid of it. It's not worth the hassle, even when it's essentially free. At least half the calls that come in are spam. (Quick aside: Ooma deserves praise for their product. I hope they succeed and can pivot properly to other products as telephones naturally die. They contribute back to the FOSS Asterisk project and their products are reliable. Here's a cool blog post I've come across where someone hooks their Ooma box into a local server running Asterisk. You could probably do some really cool home-automation with this: http://www.adrianandgenese.com/blogger/2010/04/23/how-to-setup-asterisk-with-ooma-voip-and-a-linksys-spa-3102/ http://www.adrianandgenese.com/blogger/2010/04/23/how-to-set... )