Verizon tagging incoming calls as SPAM?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Peter Capek <peter.capek () gmail com>
> Date: April 25, 2018 at 10:21:14 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber - IP <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: Verizon tagging incoming calls as SPAM?
> Reply-To: capek () ieee org
>
> For IP...
>
> I get my home "landline" service through Verizon FiOS.   I've noticed that for about 2 weeks now,
> the caller ID on many incoming calls starts with "SPAM?".   It seems that Verizon is tagging calls
> which it thinks are sales or other solicitations to alert the receiver.   So far, it's been pretty accurate:
> no false positives, and I believe only one call which I'd consider spam was not so tagged.
>
> I was unable to find anything on Verizon's web site about this, nor was I notified.  I'd be interested
> to know how they're deciding that a call is spam.  An interesting side-effect is that I can scroll through
> my caller ID history and get an objective measure of the fraction of calls which are evil.   It's close to 
> half.   Maybe we can look forward to a service to block these calls instead of merely labeling them.
>
>                  Peter Capek



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