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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by spookthesunset on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:58AM (#33437930)
> American telcos make money off letting scammers operating boiler rooms in India steal money from your grandparents, so they're happy to utterly destroy any utility that a phone has.

Not sure how telcos profit off scammers. Especially since I would imagine many times their payments are fraudulent. If anything these scammers waste the telco’s time too.

This problem clearly isn’t getting fixed but I feel like saying “telcos make bank off scammers” is just too easy of a reason. There has to be some underlying reason this is a hard problem to solve.

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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by ralph84 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:07PM (#33438107)
The telco of the user who places the call pays the telco of the user who answers the call. Every scam call that’s actually answered is money in the pocket of the telco that serves the scam victim.
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