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Also, filtering on a waveform is much harder than text data.
by flangola7 4y ago
Also, filtering on a waveform is much harder than text data.
- kerkeslager 4y agoFiltering on a waveform that doesn't exist until the user picks up the phone is literally impossible.
- doubleg72 4y agoWhat does this even mean?
- squeaky-clean 4y agoIt's hard to use automation to tell if the phone call you're receiving is a Medicare spam call, or a genuine call about Medicare for example. "I buy junk cars" is pretty easy to filter out. Nowadays they send things like "i/buy/any old/car Yconpro/autos*" (this is a real one I got 9 hours ago). But that's still easier to design a filter for than a phone call which only happens over audio.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoThey should be able to recognize spoofed numbers though. More than 90% of spam calls I get are clearly coming from a spoofed number. Sometimes it's even my own number. I know the current infrastructure can't really deal with that, but it's because the telecoms have no real reason to implement it.
- kube-system 4y agoThat’s interesting, I have never seen that. I get almost all of my spam from VoIP numbers in the same area code as my number.
- Scoundreller 4y agoClearly spoofed as it’s not the IRS or the number is too coincidentally close to yours? My employer seems to have gotten a lot of sequential phone numbers assigned, so a similar number used to be highly correlated with legitimacy, now it’s a mixed bag.