There is a similar point to be made about those fake "update on your loan" robocalls. - The carriers know, for a fact, that these are spam calls. - The spamme

There is a similar point to be made about those fake "update on your loan" robocalls. - The carriers know, for a fact, that these are spam calls. - The spammers know that the carriers know this as well. - The payout on a successful scam is large - Because of the above the scammers are willing to pay VERY large sums to the carriers - The carriers are willing to take the scammers money Nothing is surprising to me about this except the last point. Seems like "allowing people to pee in your pool, for a price" is very short term thinking. That being said, maybe it's like that old SNL parody ad [0]: "We're the phone company and we don't care. Why? Because we don't have to." (for the younger folks, Bell Telephone was a monopoly back then. That's less true now but true enough for the economics to kick in for them) 0 - https://vimeo.com/355556831 https://vimeo.com/355556831