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There needs to be felony-grade criminal liability for the VOIP providers who are giving the scammers access to the US phone network. It's funny how many things
by mullingitover 7y ago
There needs to be felony-grade criminal liability for the VOIP providers who are giving the scammers access to the US phone network. It's funny how many things are a serious, unsolvable problem until someone is in danger of being perp walked in front of reporters, at which point it's easily solved.
- baroomba 7y agoI don’t know why the US government is entertaining a game of whack-a-mole here. Just make more than X reports per customer per year of connecting scam calls an instant non-trivial fine for the phone service provider, where X is some small value, and let the big telcos figure out how they want to stop it.
- strbean 7y agoThis requires cooperation from the telcos at minimum. That's assuming they even keep records of the origination of the call, and not just the (spoofed) incoming phone number. We really just need to switch our signaling infrastructure because it is just plain insecure. Legislation could make that happen.
- unishark 7y agoWhack-a-mole is an important part of their job. But yes simple structural changes are needed too and would accomplish a lot more.
- Scoundreller 7y agoJust put the top DEA people on it.
- e40 7y agoI'm almost certain most scammers use hijacked PBXs.