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The responses here are only addressing the symptom. You want to stop robocalling, make it stop earning the callers money.
by lsiebert 9y ago
The responses here are only addressing the symptom. You want to stop robocalling, make it stop earning the callers money.
- lsiebert 9y agoI wonder, incidentally, if stopping it at the banking/money transfer level would be effective.
- adventured 9y agoIt's a whack-a-mole problem. You could never move quickly enough in the banking world to squash how this thing works. The methods are going to get more and more advanced, as AI tech gets better very rapidly in the next few years. The carriers, FCC, and banking system are entirely unprepared for what's coming next. If you really wanted to smash it, make it harder for the roboscammers to abuse the relatively new API systems of inexpensively buying phone numbers in the US market. That either has to occur at Twilio & Co's level or it will have to be government action. If Twilio & Co are smart, they'll get on this soon rather than allowing their business to be destroyed by heavy handed or inept government moves. There are few things more ripe for bad and unintended outcomes than the US government moving rapidly into something they don't understand in the name of safe guarding the people.
- dredmorbius 9y agoYou'd be surprised at how quickly adaptive fraud detection systems can work.
- lsiebert 9y agoI wonder how quickly phone companies would shut down people if they faced a meaningful financial penalty.
- dredmorbius 9y agoHrm .... interesting suggestion. I wonder if there are similar cases or ways to create a test.
- dredmorbius 9y agoOr raise the costs. Ultimately, this is a Telco problem. And they're going to have to address it or people will desert them. (As I have.)