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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-a-start dept.

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Most of the robocalls you get aren't coming from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile numbers

Most of the robocalls you get aren't coming from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile numbers

A new report suggests that the United States' top mobile carriers are making headway in the fight against annoying robocalls.

The data analytics company Transaction Network Services (TNS) released its bi-annual "Robocall Report" on Thursday, and some of the emerging unwanted call trends included an increase in hijacking mobile numbers and a shift to spoofing toll-free numbers.

However, the most promising news for consumers was that only 12% of high-risk calls received during the first six months of 2019 originated from numbers owned by AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon.

These carriers account for 70% of the nation's overall call volume.

Bill Versen, the chief product officer at TNS, said in a statement that means top-tier carriers are successfully blocking more robocalls. He added that regulatory and policy action, as well as the adoption of AI and advanced data analytics, have made it "more difficult for bad actors to place scam and fraud robocalls."

Versen also warns that it's too soon to call that a victory.

"The report suggests the need for diligence as the battlefront may shift to smaller regional and rural carriers further behind on their path to a call authentication framework and utilizing call data analytics," Versen said.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:37PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:37PM (#894079)

    Most of the robocalls I've received were scammers from Niggeria. The VoIP could block IPs assigned to that country as a start to ending robocalls. It's time for the VoIP providers (including Google) to be accountable for calls originating from their services.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:57PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:57PM (#894091)

    Most of what I get originates in India. SSN, windows support service, 'NRA' scams. I was at about 1 a month. Now it is 2-3 times a day.

    The issue is allowing the originator say who they are without any authentication. No amount of 'policing' will fix that. Some tech will fix it. But then they will just change what they do.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:05PM (2 children)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:05PM (#894105) Journal

      I get calls in Mandarin from China Bank several times/day. The phrase bu yao! (I don't want any!) has never been more useful.

      --
      Washington DC delenda est.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:11PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:11PM (#894106)

        I have been toying with answering as 'this is lenny' AND its my name! But most of the time I am busy and just do not have time to fuck with them. Roll to voice mail.

        https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nOGWrXlhl-i_3g [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 2) by legont on Saturday September 14 2019, @07:45PM

        by legont (4179) on Saturday September 14 2019, @07:45PM (#894127)

        My 917 number gets all the spam in Chinese. I can't even recall the last time I've heard English.

        --
        "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.