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A comment on Ask HN: Chinese spam-calls, anyone know what's going on?.

Re:Ask HN: Chinese spam-calls, anyone know what's going on? by valentinemsmith on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:27PM (#16906058)
I have a 415 number and began receiving these a few weeks ago.
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Re:Ask HN: Chinese spam-calls, anyone know what's going on? by dmckeon on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:42PM (#16906228)
This was happening in SF in November, 2017.

https://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-issues-warning-t...

Does anyone else find it troubling that scammers and spammers using spoofed calling numbers are doing to the voice phone system what spammers did to email, and before that, to NNTP? (The "Green Card" spam was 24 years ago.)

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