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Australia has mostly solved spam phone calls with a 'Do Not Call' register: https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers/#:~:text=You%20can%20c
by Factorium 5y ago
Australia has mostly solved spam phone calls with a 'Do Not Call' register:
https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers/#:~:text=You%20can%20call%20the%20Do,pm%20(excluding%20national%20holidays) https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/register-your-numbers....
I can see the USA has the same thing: https://www.donotcall.gov/ https://www.donotcall.gov/
Does it not work?
- technothrasher 5y agoDoesn't work at all. Most spam calls are from overseas using throw away voip accounts. Do not call just gets ignored.
- Factorium 5y agoSo why not regulate US carriers to block those calls? Or to make it more difficult to obtain the US VOIP number in the first place?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSpoofing your caller ID phone number is very easy. I can make my phone appear to be from the White House and call you. There’s no way to block that. I guess it’s a limitation of the SS7 protocol for now.
- d4mi3n 5y agoSlightly different issue. In my experience, the problem tends to be from robodialers operating on behalf of scammers or fly-by-night marketing agencies. As the US phone system is currently operated, it's trivial for these kinds of actors to spoof originating phone numbers and hit every valid US phone number in sequence.
- epc 5y agoNo. It is not a block list. It only applies to US based organizations who decide to honor it. It does nothing to prevent international callers from using (or forging) a US based number to very urgently talk to you about your lapsed car warranty or your Microsoft Windows error.
- randomhodler84 5y agoNo, because most of the spam calls in US are actually criminal fraud, eg: extended warranty. Australia carved out enough exemptions for their DNC registry to make it less useful. Political parties can spam you via phone whenever they like.
- foobarian 5y agoIt does not work because it is trivial to fake the source number. A popular form of spam pretends to call from a phone number very similar to yours (they use the same leading 6 digits) to make it look like a neighbor is calling. Hopefully the STIR/SHAKEN implementation will widen and this will be put to bed.
- duskwuff 5y ago> Does it not work? It's ineffective against true spam calls, as it only binds law-abiding callers with a presence in the US.
- Normal_gaussian 5y agoThe UK also has a series of anti-spam and anti-solicitation measures (see this by ofcom, our communications regulator: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/problems/tackling-nuisance-calls-and-messages https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice...). They are very effective, many people are educated on reporting so even out of jurisdiction offenders (e.g windows has an issue, or the more recent parcel fee texts) are shut down pretty quickly. We are currently passing (or have passed) some measures to make the service provider liable for out of jurisdiction calls and texts. The major issue we are not addressing is ‘legal scams’. Charities harassing old people, tradesmen faking issues to the uneducated - that kind of thing.
- thrower123 5y agoI haven't gotten a spam call in years that wasn't from a spoofed number. Pick it up, and it's "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty" Miss it and call back later, because it's a local area code? You get some very confused, usually elderly, person who wants to know why you called them.
- short12 5y agoIt might as well be a data source of verified numbers. The FCC is totally useless when it came to enforcement