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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 14 2019, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @10:05PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @10:05PM (#894179)

    I would switch to a number spoofing free service in a second. They would make shitloads of money. The real problem is theres a law against it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @07:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @07:44PM (#894413)

    I would switch to a number spoofing free service in a second. They would make shitloads of money. The real problem is theres a law against it.

    Which law might that be?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @07:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @07:58PM (#894418)

      In enacting the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009, Congress amended section 227 of the
      Communications Act to create a new subsection (e) focused on prohibiting the use of misleading and
      inaccurate caller ID information for harmful purposes. 7 In so doing, Congress recognized that there are
      some legitimate reasons why calling parties may wish to alter their caller ID information. 8 For example,
      domestic violence shelters sometimes alter caller ID information to ensure the safety of their residents. 9
      However, bad actors can easily abuse altered caller ID information to mislead and defraud consumers. 10
      Therefore, rather than prohibiting all caller ID spoofing, Congress made it “unlawful for any person
      within the United States, in connection with any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service,
      to cause any caller identification service to knowingly transmit misleading or inaccurate caller
      identification information with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value. .
      . .” 11

      https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-combat-illegal-spoofed-texts-international-calls-0 [fcc.gov]