1. Last I heard, the office responsible for DNC enforcement had literally 4 staff members. The chances of getting caught and punished by the government are minu

1. Last I heard, the office responsible for DNC enforcement had literally 4 staff members. The chances of getting caught and punished by the government are minuscule. 2. The rise of IP telephony has made it cost effective to run call centers and bot farms overseas to target the US, making it hard to get jurisdiction over violators. 3. IP telephony also makes it easy to cloak the source of calls, making them hard to trace. 4. Phone companies have been dragging their heels on implementing a validation method for caller ID, which makes number-based blacklists useless.