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Why are spam and phishing phone calls still an unsolved problem ? You can't get a phone line or SIM in India without ID. shouldn't this be possible to verify an
by vsskanth 5y ago
Why are spam and phishing phone calls still an unsolved problem ? You can't get a phone line or SIM in India without ID. shouldn't this be possible to verify and block at the telecom level ?
Is there something to do with common carrier laws that prevent blocking ?
- crtasm 4y agoI assume they're all using VOIP services, not landlines.
- seanp2k2 4y agoBecause it’s not a profitable problem for telcos to solve, and telcos have lots of lobbying power to ensure Washington doesn’t make them stop. They value the pennies they get from routing these calls more than all of our financial futures combined. Good thing we have a choice and so much competition here!
- mrtksn 4y agoHow does someone in the USA makes an Indian telco disable their customer SIM or phone line? Should they just assume that the caller from America is telling the truth and drop a customer? Should Indian police detain people based on a complaint from someone from a foreign county? India is a sovereign nation, I guess the victim of the scam can seek justice at the Indian courts bu that's probably not easy or cheap too. Thee things are usually matter of international cooperation, likely wouldn't work if a scammer from France is scamming someone in Germany or scammer from Canada is scamming someone from the USA.
- vsskanth 4y agoThrough the police, yes. Upon receiving credible police reports Telco in US refuses to route certain sources coming from Telco in India. Repeated infractions gets the entire Telco banned from making calls to US Telco. However I don't know the feasibility of this.
- mrtksn 4y agoI find it very unlikely that a Telco will voluntarily do the police work. These things are probably part of some international treaties and doing it legally will be hard, even if they do it and block a telco from one of the worlds most populous country the scammers can simply change SIM cards and use a new operator. The scam calls are probably very, very small percentage of the call volume. Why would a telco start international dispute, deny calls for their legitimate customers? What's more likely is that the US and India sign some kind of cooperation for fighting crimes and scammers being dealt with by the Indian authorities upon request by the US ones.
- vsskanth 4y agoI think your mostly likely outcome makes sense.
- orev 4y agoThey’re not using mobiles or land lines. They sign up with a VOIP provider in the US and then use a software phone to connect to the provider. The connection to India goes over the regular Internet, and then gets connected to the phone system at the US facility.