FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

Wed Apr 27 23:57:21 UTC 2022

On 4/27/22 15:33, Michael Thomas wrote:

> So I have a question. Suppose that I wanted to report a call as being 
> spam to my provider, say. With email, I can just send them a message 
> with the full headers since it's in my inbox. There isn't the equivalent 
> for an inbox for voip, so that would require the provider to keep 
> records of the signaling, right? I mean it could be kept on the phone if 
> it's terminating SIP, but it seems like the provider keeping records 
> would be more efficient. What I want is a spam button on the ones that 
> it doesn't say are a scam.

With AT&T and perhaps others, you can forward the message to 7726 
(spells SPAM on the keypad) and they'll reply asking for the originating 
phone number or email address.

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