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FWIW the FCC nominally levies a fine of up to $10,000 per caller ID spoofing incident: https://www.fcc.gov/spoofing https://www.fcc.gov/spoofing
by sb057 5y ago
FWIW the FCC nominally levies a fine of up to $10,000 per caller ID spoofing incident:
https://www.fcc.gov/spoofing https://www.fcc.gov/spoofing
- encryptluks2 5y agoExcept, when it comes to prosecuting people they usually make a deal where they pay a $50k fee or whatever, or they just don't have jurisdiction over the spammers and they'd rather sanction Russia than sanction India or other countries that are originating a lot of the SMS and robocall spam.
- spencerf 5y agoThis is only valid if it’s a US company and many of these are originating outside of the US. Many shady companies outside of the us simply ignore the fines.
- hedora 5y agoSimple solution: The fine is payable, link by link, to the next person in the chain by the party that forwarded the message. So the phone company can pay the subscriber the $10,000, and collect it from whoever they got the text from. I guarantee you spoofing would be solved immediately if this change to the law was scheduled for 12 months from now.
- mcv 5y agoBanning foreign calls/texts that spoof local numbers sounds like a really easy and obvious thing to do.
- technothrasher 5y agoAll the big companies that outsource customer support overseas but want an in-country caller ID wouldn't let that happen.
- somehnacct3757 5y agoSolve two problems at once, if you ask me
- MiddleEndian 5y ago> FWIW the FCC nominally levies a fine of up to $10,000 per caller ID spoofing incident: But they could just prevent it entirely by giving us the originator info. The process is basically like this: Alice calls Bob. Phone system says "Alice, who do you want to tell Bob you are?" Alice says "Bob!" Phone system says "OK!" and bills Alice because they know who Alice is. Bob gets a call from Alice but displays as Bob because Alice requested to display as Bob. Bob goes "Wtf?" Bob reports it to the FCC but he can only report getting a call/text from his own number. FCC goes "Ooh those naughty caller ID spoofers we'll get them good next time! Too bad there's no way to prevent this..."
- cptskippy 5y agoDoes the FCC have the authority to do that or are they beholden to Congress as is so often the case? Part of the conservative push to deregulate is to argue that government agencies are incompetent but the reality is that they've constructed a system where these agencies literally lack the agency to do anything more than write a nasty letter.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoYeah I'm sure Congress is heavily responsible as well. Some combination for sure.