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Re:Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t ... by magduf on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:32PM (#19037176)
This doesn't seem like a reliable way of running a business: just hoping that you can exploit a bug in Facebook (which will surely be fixed before long) so you can grab people's friends, try to figure out their phone numbers, then spoof them, then cold-call them trying to sell them crap insurance.

I'm sorry, this just sounds far-fetched to me. History seems to have shown that when hurdles are just a little too high, the spammers just don't bother.

Re:Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t ... by ryanlol on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:56PM (#19038054)
Why just facebook? Spammers have been exploiting bugs like this in everything for years. The data gets scraped and then sold and resold.