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Spam calling seems to be a big deal in the US. Not at all where I live. Is it because of different features of the network or because there are cheap English sp
by allendoerfer 10y ago
Spam calling seems to be a big deal in the US. Not at all where I live. Is it because of different features of the network or because there are cheap English speakers in other countries?
- honkhonkpants 10y agoIt's because the relevant regulatory apparatus has been captured by the to-be-regulated industry in the USA. There's no technological gap that prevents us from dropping a smart bomb on telemarketers within minutes of their first spam call. We just don't care.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago"DEATH TO SPAMMERS" [1] 1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon?from_search=true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon?from_sear...
- cmurf 10y agoI got a call from someone who told me I had a virus and had to install some software so they could fix it. I told him he should find a new job instead of trying to steal other people's money. He repeated his script. I repeated mine. And after the third time he went off script and asked me, "can you tell me where I can find a better job?" So there you go. Money making good people do bad things again.
- wpietri 10y agoAre you sure about that? In 2012 the FTC had a robocall summit with a variety of speakers. I watched the live feed and it seemed like they were quite sincere about tracking people down. It was just a hard problem given the rise of things like VOIP.
- allendoerfer 10y agoTo answer my own question: Receivers pay, not callers.