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Yes, but a number of difficulties remain: 1) there's little way of figureing out who is actually contacting you. 2) If you file the number with the FCC you do
by throwaway91111 10y ago
Yes, but a number of difficulties remain:
1) there's little way of figureing out who is actually contacting you.
2) If you file the number with the FCC you don't get a response.
3) it's not always obvious there's a commercial entity on the other side. I've gotten a number of calls that appear to try and keep me on the line while preventing from Turing test esque conversation from taking place.
4) some of the spam is legal--technically they aren't for profit, but they serve as a funnel for commercial services. These have been the most persistent with me.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoFor #3, I no longer answer the phone with "Hello" from an unknown number. I wait for the person to say "Hello?" or if the person starts talking I just hang up.
- groby_b 10y agoAll unknown numbers go to voicemail. Spammers inevitably leave 2-3 seconds of silence, so I just ban based on message duration. Usually, I report about 5-10 numbers a day.
- ikeboy 10y agoWe need a service that will collect complaints, sue on our behalf and send a check, taking their cut. Have an app that allows you to report a phone call quickly, automatically recording and uploading the entire call (it should record all calls and delete recordings after a few hours if not reported). Then for numbers that have been reported by multiple people, have someone investigate, and if the source is located, file lawsuits. It's $500 per violation, so if there's enough people lawsuits can work, and the company making the app can reduce investigation costs by distributing it among many different complainers (so even if a private investigator costs several thousand to get contact info, if they called 100 people and they end up getting a 50k judgement it works out).