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.
> 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.
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 ?
One of the numbers that the scammers spoofed was that of a major refinery that happens to be one of my clients.
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.
A Sentry call screener is what you need.