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Originally Posted by mbnwa
I use the following on my iPhone it helps limit the amount of calls as you can have them blocked before ringing your device, The FCC is also working on a task force to limit the access that these folks have but will still take time to bring live.
As someone who works in the telecommunications industry we see these issues all too frequently.
Hiya |
The problem with that app (and all apps like it) is that it relies on the integrity if CID. And there is none. It is trivial to spoof CID information and to make it worse there are no reprocussions for doing so.
Fun story: I got a call from my wife (full 10 digit CID) and it was spam. I thought it was funny so I call my wife back...but my line is locked out. I hang up and try again. Apparently at the same time I was getting a spam call from her number she was getting a spam call from my number.
I called Verizon and they said "there's nothing they can do" which translates to "we could do something but it would cost money, we'll wait until the problem reaches critical mass and the government pays us to fix our own problem".
People wine and cry about "guberment opression" but this is what we get when regulations are lax.