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Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by yafbum on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:35PM (#35191673)
Works until you have young kids in school or daycare or other places where you drop them off without a cell phone. Then you really need to be able to pick them up when the caretakers or friends' parents call you up.
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Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by _rs on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:01AM (#35192927)
Yeah, 100% this. Deviant Ollam talks about something like this (though maybe a bit more high stakes (maybe not)) in his talk here about risk preparedness I found really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI
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Re:FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by r00fus on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:39AM (#35193186)
Yeah I was in your shoes a few years back. At that point I used google voice with call screening and gave that number out to those places.
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