No, there's an increase in not-spoofed (afaik) calls too. Plus some of the callers have figured out different tricks, like multiple brief calls to bypass do-not

No, there's an increase in not-spoofed (afaik) calls too. Plus some of the callers have figured out different tricks, like multiple brief calls to bypass do-not-disturb settings, or as an attempt to get the person to call back the caller ID number. For me, at least, the calls also seem to be highly clustered, whether spoofed or not, for whatever reason. As far as I know, spoofing is left to phone company policy, which says it needs to be an associated number, like the same company or same address. I think part of the problem is they don't have a way to actually verify this for out of system calls. And technology has made setting up spam lines on small remote systems feasable. This is speculation, but I suspect it would be considered criminal fraud if it's done as part of a bigger crime. I don't think it's a crime in-and-of itself, but other than that, idk.