You would think that of all the "great achievements" our current administration likes to boast about, they would put some serious TEETH into SPAM and telemarket

You would think that of all the "great achievements" our current administration likes to boast about, they would put some serious TEETH into SPAM and telemarketing calls - - like prison time, and rabid enforcement. Everyone I know does not answer any live calls unless it's someone on their known "list", everything else is texting only. I discovered that when I respond to all unknown calls with "please text me", the spammers system won't take it and comes back with "error, invalid number" . . . then I know it's a scammer / spammer, and I block it. But blocking them is useless because the next time they use that fake number to try to call you it comes up blocked by you, so now they know they have a live connected number, and that encourages them to hammer away at you. I heard they get paid by how many numbers they dial out -- NOT by making a connection to a live human being. The fact that the Gov't cannot effectively block all these calls shows how insecure our phone system really is.