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Afaik they are mostly illegal, at least where I live.
by tpxl 8y ago
Afaik they are mostly illegal, at least where I live.
- thunfischbrot 8y agoYou mean that they do not happen in the EU as they are illegal there? They are illegal in the US as well.
- tremon 8y agoThe EU regulators still have teeth.
- soundwave106 8y agoAlthough no law will prevents all scams, some European governments do have much stricter laws on when you can "cold call" period. In Germany, for instance, thanks to legislation passed a decade ago, I believe the customer needs to grant explicit permission in order for a business to be able to cold call, and no telemarketer can impersonate your phone number -- https://www.thelocal.de/20090804/21021 https://www.thelocal.de/20090804/21021. It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation with these sorts of laws, and the prevalence of phone scams.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThey are illegal in the US and often originate abroad, anyway, so legality under the law of the target country (or the source country, as most are illegal where they originate, too) doesn't seem to be a controlling factor.
- supertrope 8y agoFraud and wire fraud are illegal in most countries. The limiting factor is effectiveness of enforcement and probability of being caught.