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Yesterday [March 26] the FTC (Federal Trade Comission) announced that it had won court orders shutting down four separate robocall "Operations Responsible for Billions of Illegal Robocalls"
Settlements were obtained against
NetDotSolutions
Higher Goals Marketing
Veterans of America
PointBreak Media
The judgements include multimillion dollar penalties and require the various entities to stop all robocalling and some other operations.
The calls you should see less of that these companies provided include
auto warranties, debt-relief services, home security systems, fake charities, and Google search results services
No indication if this includes those medical back brace insurance scam calls that seem to have taken over lately, but here is hoping.
More coverage here
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @03:41AM (5 children)
No, it is some sort of misguided regulation stopping them from doing that:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/robocallers-evolved-to-sidestep-new-call-blocking-rules-ags-tell-fcc/ [arstechnica.com]
If you think about it, it makes sense that is the case... I would easily pay more to allow 0 spoofed numbers to call me.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Friday March 29 2019, @05:07AM (3 children)
There's nothing stopping them from forcing the caller id to be correct or displaying "Fake Caller ID" instead of what the caller sent.
They don't seem to have a problem blocking calls that withhold caller ID at the would-be receiver's request, so they can treat spoofed caller id as withheld caller ID and if the reciever has freely elected to have that blocked, do so.
Simple fact, they don't because they don't want to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @11:32AM (2 children)
Sorry, but you are just wrong. There is a regulation stopping them.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @12:10PM
Any laws preventing the complete elimination of robocalls (excluding those an individual has opted into, such as school notifications, etc) are because politicians use and abuse robocalls for fundraising. It is against a politician's self interest to stop robocalls.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday March 29 2019, @05:57PM
Nope. The service to block calls without caller ID are available right now.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday March 29 2019, @03:53PM
I wouldn't be surprised if the telcos were lobbying the FTC to put that rule in place. They make money on spoofed calls and would have to spend money to block them.
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