FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge

Re:FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge by Izkata on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:17AM (#26807372)

This year so far, I've had 27 spam calls, of which:

* Only 7 were from my phone's area code

* 2 were from where I live now

* The other 18 were from all over the country

So.. you're lucky if your spam is so consistent. It's far from a guarantee.

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Re:FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge by jjeaff on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:15PM (#26856436)

So you really only would have gotten 2 spam calls had you used my method to ignore. Unless you regularly get important calls from numbers you don't know in other locales, I don't. But they can leave a message if they do.

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Re:FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge by bananabreakfast on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:04AM (#26808116)

Ah, but that's the value of the strategy!

Your roofer or doctor or whoever should have only a local area code. So out of those 27 spam calls, you only need to answer the 2 that came in from where you live now.

That's a 90%+ reduction! Not a bad strategy.

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Re:FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge by vijayr02 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:26AM (#26808421)

Sorry, pedant at work...

Presumably the 18 random area calls would have been ignored in any case.

So the real reduction is 7/9, which is is a 77% reduction. Not bad, but not 90%+.

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