The FCC!
Oh No!
I'm sure the overseas robocall centers are really worried about 'bans'
We all know Gun Free zones have totally stopped all firearm crimes in those designated areas.
I put my self on the no call list and that totally got me more calls.
BAN ALL ROBO-CALLS!
If it stops ONE G-D Medicare Benefits call, I’m all for it. Amazing how many I get with Asian accents . . .
They should crack down on fake governments... like we have now.
I like the one where the message fades in and out and you can’t tell what they’re talking about. Then the phone number to call is plain as day with no fading. Yeah. Okay. As an aside, my car warranty must no longer be an issue and the IRS has no longer decided to cancel my SSN. Those calls have dropped off the face of the Earth. So I’m good there.
How about banning the ability to spoof phone numbers?
Make that stop, and the rest of the nonsense stops.
I’d rather a ban on politicians that don’t abide by their oath to the Constitution of the USA...
The No Call List was created by the UniParty as a head fake so they could keep doing spam calls for political reasons.
It is useless as are most gov programs.
The FCC can’t even prevent spoofing caller ID numbers, let alone the content of the calls.
The FCC is just putzing around the real issue here. It has to FORCE telephone companies to present the REAL calling numbers/locations from which these calls originate. No more number spoofing. They won’t stop until their true crap hole hidey holes are exposed.
I did too. Frequency dropped from 15 a day to 4 or 5. Maybe from auto-dialers in foreign countries. I still don't answer the phone.
One hypothesis I hold is that the auto-dialers give up after getting the machine a dozen times or so, but if they even once get a live human, the floodgates open wide. Takes discipline to not pick up when I know it's my wife or daughter calling.
I use freepbx: https://www.freepbx.org/
With some fiddling, scripting and a modest investment in FXO and FXS PCIe cards, telemarketers and scammers are history.
What about the 47 texts I get every day from Donald Trump? Should I stop sending him 20 bucks every time he texts?
unless they bash Trump. Then they can get funding.
I’m sure “Bob Smith”, calling from Hyderabad, will be seriously discomfited by this ruling.
(I approve (I think) but scammers are criminals ...)
With their love of AI they’ll increase by 1000 times
If I don’t recognize a number, I don’t answer it. It’s important enough, they will leave a message.
“My name is Peggy!”
“FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices”
yeah, right ... didn’t they already “ban” junk and unsolicited calls, and now there are only 40 billion an hour that no one does anything about?