Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: AZRedhawk44 on July 01, 2021, 03:24:54 PM
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This might just be the first government program that has tangibly improved my life.
https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication
FCC implemented these requirements for wireless telephone providers, and they went into effect at least for me (on AT&T) either the 29th or the 30th of June. I used to get 4 or 5 shitty robocalls a day, with my same area code and prefix. It's been silence for the last 48 hours. Absolutely wonderful.
This is me, AZRedhawk44, anarcho-capitalist and former libertarian, giving a government agency an "attaboy" for something.
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This is interesting. I got an email from verizon probably a couple of months ago, indicating that they had rolled out their own spam filters, and Idefinitely saw a decrease in spam calls, and when one came through, the caller ID was "potential spam".
If I read the OP right, this gov program just now started. Coincidentally, I have gotten a half dozen un-ID'd spam calls* yesterday and the same today, all with the area code from where I used to live.
* I'm assuming spam. I don't answer unknown numbers. Several of the calls were from the same number, and none left a VM.
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I'm still getting a lot of Indian accented "____ from senior care" and robotic "THIS IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND WE HAVE DETECTED ..." calls.