RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 12:54, Dan Hollis
<goemon () sasami anime net> wrote:

> Fact is the telcos make lots of money off spoofed robocalls so they
have
> zero incentive to stop the practice.

That is an easy one to solve.  The telco simply needs to provide a free
"Call Screening" service that you can activate on your line such that
the telco terminates all calls with a message "Please enter <random
three digit number> to ring the subscriber line".  No valid code,
disconnect the call.  They still get to charge a termination fee to
whomever handed the call to them.

Additional features (whitelisting/blacklisting) available for extra
charge.

> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote:
>
> > "CallerID" is a misnomer.  It is actually the "Advertized ID".
> However, the telco's realized you would not pay to receive advertizing
so
> they renamed it to something they thought you would pay for.
> > Pretty canny business model eh?  And apparently y'all fell for it,
> thinking it was related to the Identification of the Caller, rather
than
> being what the caller wished to advertize.
> > --
> > The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven
> says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.


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The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven
says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.