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Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by squeaky-clean on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:52PM (#35190051)
They should be able to recognize spoofed numbers though. More than 90% of spam calls I get are clearly coming from a spoofed number. Sometimes it's even my own number.

I know the current infrastructure can't really deal with that, but it's because the telecoms have no real reason to implement it.

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Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by kube-system on Thursday March 16, 2023 @07:31PM (#35190467)
That’s interesting, I have never seen that. I get almost all of my spam from VoIP numbers in the same area code as my number.
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Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by Scoundreller on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:17AM (#35194222)
Clearly spoofed as it’s not the IRS or the number is too coincidentally close to yours?

My employer seems to have gotten a lot of sequential phone numbers assigned, so a similar number used to be highly correlated with legitimacy, now it’s a mixed bag.

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