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To: Leaning Right

The telephone has been made almost useless by these scammers. They send you a fake number that shows in your caller id. This renders caller id and the “do not call list” useless. Worse: the number that they send is often the number of a legitimate enterprise. They have used, among others, the number of a government agency and of a wireless telephone carrier.
Legislators are powerless because of the design of the caller id system. It needs to be rethought and changed, so that the real number is always known, and in the case of voice over IP, the IP address.
Temporary measure: calls from outside of the USA must be identified as to name of carrier and country.
Within the USA, laws can be changed and enforced. The penalty for sending a fake caller id should be public hanging.


6 posted on 03/16/2019 6:38:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: I want the USA back

> Temporary measure: calls from outside of the USA must be identified as to name of carrier and country. <

Yep. That would probably knock out 90% of those scam calls. Because most of them I get seem to come from India.


12 posted on 03/16/2019 6:46:05 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: I want the USA back

You are right. Caller ID is a mess. They should be sued for charging for a service that does not deliver due to their flaw.
Class Action anyone ?


13 posted on 03/16/2019 6:46:34 AM PDT by dmet
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One of the numbers that the scammers spoofed was that of a major refinery that happens to be one of my clients.


35 posted on 03/16/2019 7:13:53 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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The cell companies want to encourage the scam callers. Then they can sell you ‘solutions’. NoMoRobo has frozen the landline companies out of profiting from the scams.

I never answer my cell phone. I rarely listen to voicemail.


55 posted on 03/16/2019 7:31:11 AM PDT by PAR35
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A Sentry call screener is what you need.


119 posted on 03/16/2019 3:49:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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