For me this is the most infuriating part:<p>> The Commission does not collect criminal fines for violations of section 227.
> If a party fails to pay a forfeiture, we refer the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice for further enforcement action. We have referred to the Department of Justice forfeiture orders involving violations of section 227 by Adrian Abramovich, Marketing Strategy Leaders, Inc., and Marketing Leaders, Inc. (Abramovich), Philip Roesel, dba Wilmington Insurance Quotes, and Best Insurance Contracts, Inc. (Roesel), Affordable Enterprises of Arizona, LLC, and Scott Rhodes a.k.a. Scott David Rhodes, Scott D. Rhodes, Scott Platek, Scott P. Platek (Rhodes). 34 <i>During calendar year 2020, the Attorney General did not collect any forfeiture penalties or criminal fines for violations of section 227 cases that the Commission has referred.</i> We lack knowledge about the U.S. Department of Justice’s collections beyond those cases.<p>It said earlier that these entities owe tens of millions of dollars in forfeitures. Why were they not collected? If these criminals know that there’s no penalty, they’ll continue acting badly. (And we can see already that they do this. They change names and start over.)
In today's telecom world where everything is tracked and logged down to the microsecond, it's extremely angering that the only reason we still get robocalls is because the players in the telecom game are making <i>a lot of money from letting them happen</i>.
Illegal (fraud) robocalls need to stop.<p>With that being said, I'm tired of the carriers / phone creators deciding when I want to answer my phone.<p>An example of what I'm talking about: <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251165362" rel="nofollow">https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251165362</a><p>My bank was trying to get a hold of me due to them turning off autopay, and I wasn't answering their calls because it doesn't show a phone number or anything. Just "Spam Likely"<p>IMO I'd rather see all calls coming to my phone, and send them to VM if I want. Devices nowadays even have the capability to block calls from outside your contact list if you want.<p>These decisions should be up to me! Not some blackhole where algorithms decide if I should receive the call or not.
Not widely advertised, by my provider (Telus) offers "call-control" which asks callers to enter a randomly selected digit before the call comes to me, unless they are on an approved list, or they have passed the challenge previously. I can turn the service on or off, and add approved numbers using a web app. I had to contact them to activate this service, but I am very happy I have it.<p>Of course not all robo-calls are by bad players. For example, if I am offered a call-back from a tech support call because of wait times, I need to remember to turn call control off until the call comes. Rob calls from political parties during election time, on the other hand, I am happy to live without.<p>I wish all providers were required to provide this service.
I saw a Shitty Life Tips the other day claiming that if you mentioned Tienanmen Square to the Chinese robocallers that they'll end up on a list.<p>I only know enough about Mandarin to distinguish it from all the other East Asian languages. Maybe I should have my coworker teach me "fuck off and stop calling me," but what I really want is a Mark as Spam button on my phone instead of just block caller.
The US government failed attempts to stop robocalls is my favorite example of how ineffective and corrupt the system is. We all know that in a healthy system it is an easy problem to solve. All the lobbyist and corporate interest is goin in the way. It's ironic because the government officials know how directly the general population feel the pain of this one and sometimes really want to do the unordinary and focus on interest of The People but can't get it done!
More info here: Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls: Petition for Reconsideration and Request for Clarification of USTelecom – The Broadband Association <a href="https://ofr.report/pi/2021-28212/" rel="nofollow">https://ofr.report/pi/2021-28212/</a>
Can the FCC revoke the major mobile operators' spectrum licenses if they fail to verify Caller ID records? I know that won't help with land-lines and VoIP but I imagine it would take away the bulk of the incentive for the perpetrators.
At one time phones were useful. Robocalls have stolen all our phones from us. I would like my phone back. I would like us all to have our phones back. The penalties actually paid need to increase until we get our phones back from the thieves.
I now get them on whatsapp, twitter DM and signal too. As well as group text messages, daily spoofed sms text messages on top of normal spoofed calls. Its getting ridiculous at this point.
this is one fugly text file:<p><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-378593A1.txt" rel="nofollow">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-378593A1.txt</a>
Anyone here familiar with STIR/SHAKEN ?<p><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication" rel="nofollow">https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication</a>
How has nobody mentioned Ajit Pai overturning net neutrality which to me is exactly when the robo calls stopped flossing in. With Net Neutrality in place callers had to get your permission to call. And shocker, you remove oversight and allow free acces to run scams how is anyone surprised robocalls have become a huge issue.