[elcid1970]

I play off the messages on my Mom’s phone whenever I visit. One of these “IRS” scams was on it. She’s elderly & lives alone.

Scammers like these deserve to be tracked down to their motel lairs and executed on the spot `while resisting arrest’.

If they want to get deadly, then so be it.

[Truth29]

The trouble is the scammers are sitting in some basement in India or Romania or the like. The police technology needs to be improved so that spoofing calls either incoming or outgoing can be readily detected. If the crooks can make it look like the victim is making the calls and that cannot be detected, then there is no end to the damage they can do. The next call could be a fake terroristic threat for instance. Real terrorists could also use the technology to disrupt US security.

[4FreeSpeach]

There is a free service that works quite well at blocking these kinds of calls automatically if you have a VOIP phone service (does not work with plain old telephone service). It automatically hangs up the robo caller after the first ring.

Check out:
https://www.nomorobo.com