FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl

Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by ars on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:05PM (#36978353)

Do you have family? Because I've heard horror stories of people who did this, and then no one could contact them when a family member was seriously hurt.

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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by njovin on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:13PM (#36978478)

I do this and I have family. If somebody leaves a voicemail I check it right away.

About 6 months ago I started getting 10-30 calls per day so I really have no other option. Most of them are Medicare scammers (I'm not even old enough to qualify). I cannot fathom how:

1. The FCC/telcos have managed to allow anyone to spoof any number they like with no oversight and no (effective) abuse reporting system. This has been going on for years with absolutely no improvement.

2. Medicare is apparently so easy to scam out of money that all they need is my name and birthday to get money out of the system on my behalf. When I've answered and played along by giving them fake information, they always hang up as soon as they have these 2 pieces of info.

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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by manicennui on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:45PM (#36978856)

If scamming Medicare were that easy, they would just buy a list.

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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by worthless-trash on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:31AM (#36981781)

That however costs money.

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Re:FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provid... by notatoad on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:01PM (#36979567)

i don't have kids. if i did, i don't think i'd reject unknown callers like this.

but for my life, it works.

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