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The phone companies know, but they won't tell you without a court order.
by rhizome 5y ago
The phone companies know, but they won't tell you without a court order.
- imgabe 5y agoThis is a good thing. Companies should not release user data without a court order.
- unishark 5y ago...or consent. Seems like Marriott should get a say in the tracing of calls from people claiming to represent Marriott.
- rhizome 5y agoThey (or whoever is transiting their lines) know the account number of the entity that pays for the line that the robocalls are originating from. If the phone company made it possible for end users to block numbers based on who is funding the calls I think they would go away fairly completely.
- judge2020 5y agoEven with this, it’s probably not going to be of much use when they all turn up from countries with a low standard of living (in terms of USD payment per month). I doubt Marriott would spend the resources suing some company across the world.
- viraptor 5y agoIf the government cares enough there's still a way to deal with that. Telcos could be forced not forward spam calls and allowed to not accept connections from known spam sources. Then the foreign telcos would have to choose between cleaning up their act or not being able to route calls to the US anymore. Technically that's easy to implement on peering level. But international routing is still relatively expensive. In most cases your "international" incoming call is just a local one with spoofed source.
- ThrustVectoring 5y agoor someone whose story is "idk someone on craigslist paid me $300 to set up a business phone account". They'd want these anyways to ensure that they retain access in case of the network actually shutting them out.