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By next year, nearly half of the mobile phone calls we get will be scams, according to a new report from First Orion, a company that provides calls management and protection for T-Mobile, MetroPCs, Virgin Mobile and others.
The percentage of scam calls in US mobile traffic increased from 3.7 percent last year to 29.2 percent this year, and it's predicted to rise to 44.6 percent in 2019, First Orion said in a press release Wednesday.
The most popular method scammers use to try to get people to pick up the phone is called "neighborhood spoofing," where they disguise their numbers with a local prefix so people presume the calls are safe to pick up, First Onion said. Third-party call blocking apps may help protect consumers from known scam numbers, but they can't tell if a scammer hijacks someone's number and uses it for scam calls.
"Year after year, the scam call epidemic bombards consumers at record-breaking levels, surpassing the previous year and scammers increasingly invade our privacy at new extremes," First Orion CEO Charles Morgan said in the press release.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/almost-half-of-us-cell-phone-calls-will-be-scams-by-next-year-says-report/
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @07:36PM (7 children)
I propose the same for posting under the handle "Runaway1956".
Goodness you're a bitter creature, you... do you really not know how to deal with anything except for with violence?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 15 2018, @09:11PM (3 children)
Maybe you should get a touche mod. Except - you don't have an effective non-violent method of dealing with this shit, do you? Of course you don't, or these scams wouldn't be under discussion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:33PM (1 child)
Do you agree with using violence against scammers of all races and nationalities or just a select group? If the scammer happens to be jewish then of course the scammed person will be killed and the jew rewarded with prizes and awards. Is that ok with you or do you wish to change your idea of fair punishment? Or perhaps different laws for scammers of different races and nationalities.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 16 2018, @09:08AM
Some dude in prehistoric times said something like, "I have a dream that people should be judged for their character, and not for their skin color." Yes, of course we execute scammers, regardless of their race, nationality, wealth, gender, or whatever. It's the CHARACTER we are judging here. Some shitstain is busy scamming you out of your money, and they don't care how wealthy or how poor you are. Burn them at the cross. If it pleases you, you may build the fire hotter or cooler depending on the color of their skin. Just burn 'em.
(Score: 2) by arulatas on Monday September 17 2018, @02:50PM
Put them in a room with hundreds of cell phones that can't be turned off. The phones randomly ring at all times and the only way to stop the ringing is to answer the phone and say a passphrase of "I am on the do not call list".
----- 10 turns around
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:10PM (2 children)
If violence isn't the answer, then you're not using enough of it.
(Score: 2) by Spook brat on Sunday September 16 2018, @02:54AM (1 child)
-Maxim 6, The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries [wikia.com]
You left out the attribution, FTFY.
Travel the galaxy! Meet fascinating life forms... And kill them [schlockmercenary.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 16 2018, @09:44AM
Thanks for that. I haven't read Schlock in a long time now. But, we've discussed this one here at Soylent a few times:
It amazes me that so few people truly understand that. Even IF I should find common cause with an enemy, he almost certainly remains my enemy. Speaking of enemies - artillery should work on the scammers!