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This Guy Found a Way to Block Robocalls When Phone Companies Wouldn’t
- bediger4000 12y agoEven as Nomorobo has flourished, the country’s leading phone companies still avoid such call blocking. And that’s rather baffling. "Rather baffling". I wish I had that dry of a sense of humor. Naturally, the easiest assumption is that the Phone Companies make money from "Anne" and "Rachel" from "Cardholder Services". Given that Bank of America has a "Card Member Services" that calls and sounds a lot like "Anne" and "Rachel", I bet the credit card companies also make a lot of money from it: they get to add overdue charges and other fees when people hang up on legit notices that sound fake. I can understand the phone companies' stance, and the credit card companies' stance - it's just like ISPs and spam. I can't understand why the FTC and/or the FCC don't go after these scummy scammers. The robocallers are almost certainly using PBXs to put fake IDs on the calls - I haven't gotten a successful call back on any number. I've heard rumors that a lot of the robocallers are also using hacked PBXs as cut-outs. That's got to be illegal. You'd think the F*C agencies would want to stop the robocallers just to stop the constant stream of complaints they get.