FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

Sat Jan 4 14:32:58 UTC 2020

I do that every time ;)

As the owner of telco, I even get small money for this call termination.

Also, we implemented immediate answer and voice menu option, it says 
"Welcome, press ... to reach ...!" and circles. So me (as the telco 
operator) receive the money for call termination, and real customer do 
not get a spam call. Looks like captcha in the Internet!

20.12.19 02:09, Keith Medcalf пише:
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> This, of course, will do no good.  These so called "Robocalls" are exactly that.  They generate a random number to call and play the silly canned message.  If you press whatever the code is to talk to the idiots, they then hand off the call to a call center.
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> You should ALWAYS talk to the call center behind the robocaller.  The robocaller (the one playing the message) is relatively local and the cost of that call is minimal.  When you select to talk to the robocaller, that generates an international handoff to a call center in India.  This costs more money (it costs THEM more money).  The longer you can keep the bastards talking on the phone, the MORE it costs them.  It can also be quite entertaining and you can keep them on the line for HOURS with enough practice.
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> If you do this EVERY SINGLE TIME then in rather short order your telephone number will be fed back to the company doing the "robocalling" as a "bad target" and you will get no more robocalls (since there are only two or three companies in the whole world who run the front end for a whole shitload of scammers).
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> Conversely if you do not answer or hang up on the robo-message, you will be classified as an "excellent target" and you will get MORE calls.
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