Phone companies, state attorneys general announce broad campaign to fight robocalls.
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Under the agreement, the 12 carriers have agreed to implement call-blocking technology, make anti-robocall tools available for free to consumers and deploy a new system that would label calls as real or spam. Known by its acronym, STIR/SHAKEN, the technology takes aim at a practice known as spoofing, where fraudsters mask their identities by using phone numbers that resemble those that they're trying to contact in a bid to get victims to pick up and surrender their personal information
Signing the pledge are larger mobile carriers, such as AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, which already have said they would implement such robocall protections and in some cases have started testing them around the country. Other carriers adopting the pledge include Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Consolidated, Frontier, U.S. Cellular and Windstream.
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God, it can't come soon enough!
Not everyday, but I've gotten as many as two dozen in a day, usually 6 to 8 daily. If it isn't some moron telling me my google listing has expired, or my credit card has been breached, it's some Nigerian trying to convince me I won the lottery, but it'll cost me to get my money. :rolleyes:
If I do answer the phone, I remain silent. Usually, the phone call will end in a few seconds (because it did not hear a noise and the system hangs up).
Quote from: Solar on August 24, 2019, 08:20:34 PM
God, it can't come soon enough!
Not everyday, but I've gotten as many as two dozen in a day, usually 6 to 8 daily. If it isn't some moron telling me my google listing has expired, or my credit card has been breached, it's some Nigerian trying to convince me I won the lottery, but it'll cost me to get my money. :rolleyes:
Yeah, it does not matter what the invention is/was, there is some moron out there that can screw it up. I know of no one who has ever bought anything based off a robocall, why do they continue?
Quote from: s3779m on August 25, 2019, 04:05:13 AM
Yeah, it does not matter what the invention is/was, there is some moron out there that can screw it up. I know of no one who has ever bought anything based off a robocall, why do they continue?
So your saying you don't know any Dem's. :lol:
Quote from: walkstall on August 25, 2019, 05:11:37 AM
So your saying you don't know any Dem's. :lol:
I get 2 or 3 calls about my credit card, that I don't have. :lol:
Quote from: walkstall on August 25, 2019, 05:11:37 AM
So your saying you don't know any Dem's. :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Ok, I might know some dims, but I have never had a conversation with one where I could hear them over my screaming at them.