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That's exactly the solution I imagined. Dial something like *69 and have the sender marked as a robocaller. It shouldn't be hard to find the people getting th
by Natsu 14y ago
That's exactly the solution I imagined. Dial something like *69 and have the sender marked as a robocaller. It shouldn't be hard to find the people getting thousands of reports every day and shut off their phone service.
- DanBC 14y agoHow to deal with 4chan style shenanigans?
- Natsu 14y agoYou'd have to get the victim to call you before you could mark them as a robo-caller, so it's hard to see how there could be false positives for anyone who wasn't calling lots and lots of people.
- joezydeco 14y agoThere actually was a mechanism designed into the * 69 service for a situation like this, but it was meant more for threatening calls or things that required police action. You could dial * 57 after hanging up on the caller and the calling number would be recorded at the phone company, where the police could obtain it if was determined to be necessary. tldr; the mechanism is there, but probably will never be used.
- CWuestefeld 14y agoSeveral months ago I was getting fax calls at 1am-2am repeatedly. The phone company told me to use this service to mark the calls. However, it turns out that since the nature of the calls weren't technically "harassing", they couldn't do anything about it. Apparently if someone calls me in the middle of the day and says "penis", that could get them in trouble; but waking my wife and I night after night is not harassing. Go figure. So the police couldn't legally do anything, and the phone company wouldn't do anything. That's when I finally dumped traditional telephone service. If the phone company isn't interested in giving me a product with the features I want, I'll find someone else who will. Now I've got VoIP service. I can see a complete record of who called me (subject to CID spoofing), and I can set up blacklists for incoming numbers according to my own whims.