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While this will vary from country to country, at least here in the US there are several situations where the legal means are not more effective. The main one i

by kodis 12y ago

While this will vary from country to country, at least here in the US there are several situations where the legal means are not more effective. The main one is scammers who just don't care, either because they're running a "hit and run" type of operation or because they're operating from overseas. Then there are classes of phone calls which are (again, at least in the US) exempt from the legal "do not call" rules: politicians making campaign calls, and survey firms, which the politicians use to determine who to bother calling. It's a nice loophole that they've constructed for themselves. Luckily it's only a problem for a few month every other year.

wpietri 12y ago
The US regulators are working hard at it, but it's a challenging problem. The robocalls I all get now are very good at masking where they are from; the humans you talk to know not to give away the name or location of the company. For those interested in learning more, the FTC had a robocall summit a few years back and they recorded the webcast: http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2012/10/robocalls-all-rage-ftc-summit http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2012/10/roboc... There was a lot of good technical detail on why it's now hard to track these people down.