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I work for UPS and cannot wait for the day customers stop coming in/calling because a text with 12 misspellings is telling them that a package they never ordered isn't coming and they need to provide their SSN to validate.

Email still sucks too. I’ve gotten dozens of spam messages since I refi’d. Got 71 since last night. So easy to see how this round started.

I mean, cool but there's a loophole. FCC needs to mandate number authentication. None of this matters as long as spoofing works.

My phone number was leaked during one of the many data leaks that seem to happen every year, after that any chance for good phone hygiene was donezo

Thank god my Amazon account has been “locked” 8 times this werk

It's the internet, always have to add /s as tone is highly up to interpretation.

What about the ones that come from an email address and not a phone number, and therefore can't be blocked on my phone? Will they get rid of those too?

That's a built-in setting on most mobiles these days.

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Hey, i hope they can make it work.

Yeah I get the same thing, when I see an incoming call with my exchange #, I immediately know it’s a robo call. Except one time it was a woman who kept calling and leaving me a message “uhh you called me and I’m returning your call”. So after five of these I answered the next time I saw her #, I tried so hard to explain the issue and she kept saying “yeah I know what robot calls are, but I’m asking why are YOU, who is not a robot, calling me” I just blocked her number after that, I did my best to explain!

You have to pay extra for that, with some registrars. I use Porkbun and it's included, can definitely recommend.

Respond immediately for unlock account

I feel like I've seen these headlines about robocalls and scam texts over and over for the past 5-6 years. FCC says to stop, mobile companies do the bare minimum, nothing changes much, then nothing else happens. I'll believe it when I see it. After the most recent articles about FCC members illegally owning telecom stock it's zero surprise to me

Uplifting until Mr derulo appears in an orange jumpsuit police photo because they spent through all their money and didn't have any left to pay the irs.

i registerred a website...

then i started getting scam calls every week...
Asked the website host/domain to please make my info private, or remove it, but they wouldn't do that.

Force them to list If the number is spoofed or not And what exchange it's from. I'd like to also block entire exchanges. 99% of my scam calls come from the same exchange and I can't block the whole thing.

Sounds like a great plan that Newsom can definitely implement.

YES I get those every day too! What the heck is going on…

I assume it is “phone hygiene”.

My personal phone gets a scam text a month and rare calls. My work phone gets multiple texts a day and at least a couple calls a week, many scams, some from local shops I assume the previous owner of my number did business with.

I’m guessing the work number was either in a publicly facing directory (our company doesn’t do that, but maybe the previous owner) or maybe it was recklessly handed out to every random company and typed into every web form that asked. (Seems likely from the local business calls.)

I’m reminded of computer viruses. I’ve never in 20+ years of computer ownership had a virus or other malware impact my machine. I know a few people who had this happen constantly, especially in the aughts. I’m no internet saint and did the usual amount of piracy for someone my age. But clearly some people use technology differently!!

Good luck, I hope they update the prison.

Well now its all better

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What about WhatsApp business?