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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by lazyasciiart on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:41PM (#19426091)
Nope, turns out there is virtually no downside to making spam calls in the US, and so companies continue to do it. The spoofed numbers are just a way they implement that to get around consumer efforts to prevent it.
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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by nonbel on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:47PM (#19426134)
I'll take your word for that. But the problem is that bad regulation has created a downside for providers to block spam calls so they continue not to.

I would easily switch providers tomorrow if one of the features was "no spoofed numbers". This would be a giant market advantage if not prevented by this regulatory issue (whatever it is).

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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by bobthepanda on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:31PM (#19426430)
T-Mobile offers it for free: https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/call-protection

Verizon Wireless offers it for $2.99 a line: https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/call-filter-faqs/

Not sure about the other major carriers.

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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by btilly on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:54PM (#19426579)
I am on T-Mobile. There was a point when most of the spam to my phone was from Scam Likely. Then the robocallers learned that this is the truth, and I get spam about my credit card and something in Chinese that isn't so flagged.
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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by bpicolo on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:34PM (#19426896)
I haven't gotten a single spam call since enabling the blocking.
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Re:Eliminating Robocalls by nonbel on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:46PM (#19426533)
Neither of those block spoofed numbers, both work by creating a blacklist.
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