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It’s about damn time.

Now get ISP’s to block phishing.

Cool. Now get them to stop them from calling me. Ever since work switched to Zoom phone, I get at LEAST three scam calls a day.

Great. Now stop the robo calls.

Holy cow, that would be great! I have no love for the 3 am text from rando email advertising singles crap or whatever. The latest is everyday the text from email that says my Netflix, Amex, Amazon, home depot etc account has been locked, please go here and give us your info.. and the people that own and run the network just can't seem to do anything, shucks...

I understand that scam call operations are often run out of office buildings, much like other businesses that conduct themselves over the internet.

I would like to propose we level those office buildings with cruise missiles. I don’t think it would render our wishes unclear.

I see it getting better slowly. The number of calls I get on my landline (yes, still have one) have reduced sharply. Two weeks ago, some idiot with an auto-dialer was calling me one or two times a day and the caller ID showed [V] for verified. I tracked down his provider and complained and the calls stopped immediately. Anything unknown or likely spam is automatically blocked.

I'm sure this will work flawlessly and no one will ever get a spam call again!

Actually, it looks like this new rule brings texting in line with spam calls, which are already required to be blocked:

> The FCC already requires similar blocking of voice calls from these types of numbers.

If this actually happens/works, I will be so happy.

Good

Now if they could block scam calls that would be great

If.

How will I know that my address is wrong and my package is "on held" and that I "kindly need to get in touch with UPS/Amazon!"

Hooray. Those fuck wads wake me up like 3 times a week.

Always fun to be getting those spree of about 3-4 texts telling me I'm locked out of some account or another.

They've been trying names like Ntfx-Account lately.

Exactly, get them to prevent the spoofing of numbers

I will get zero scam calls a week. MY roommate will get 5-6 a day. It makes no sense.

God thank you. It was my only save space

And it only took decades to do, too! Good job!

Blocking “Potential Spam” calls altogether would be nice too

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This should have been done a long time ago, but better late than never.

What about WhatsApp business?

Well now its all better

I assume it is “phone hygiene”.

My personal phone gets a scam text a month and rare calls. My work phone gets multiple texts a day and at least a couple calls a week, many scams, some from local shops I assume the previous owner of my number did business with.

I’m guessing the work number was either in a publicly facing directory (our company doesn’t do that, but maybe the previous owner) or maybe it was recklessly handed out to every random company and typed into every web form that asked. (Seems likely from the local business calls.)

I’m reminded of computer viruses. I’ve never in 20+ years of computer ownership had a virus or other malware impact my machine. I know a few people who had this happen constantly, especially in the aughts. I’m no internet saint and did the usual amount of piracy for someone my age. But clearly some people use technology differently!!

YES I get those every day too! What the heck is going on…

Force them to list If the number is spoofed or not And what exchange it's from. I'd like to also block entire exchanges. 99% of my scam calls come from the same exchange and I can't block the whole thing.

i registerred a website...

then i started getting scam calls every week...
Asked the website host/domain to please make my info private, or remove it, but they wouldn't do that.

I feel like I've seen these headlines about robocalls and scam texts over and over for the past 5-6 years. FCC says to stop, mobile companies do the bare minimum, nothing changes much, then nothing else happens. I'll believe it when I see it. After the most recent articles about FCC members illegally owning telecom stock it's zero surprise to me

Respond immediately for unlock account

You have to pay extra for that, with some registrars. I use Porkbun and it's included, can definitely recommend.

Yeah I get the same thing, when I see an incoming call with my exchange #, I immediately know it’s a robo call. Except one time it was a woman who kept calling and leaving me a message “uhh you called me and I’m returning your call”. So after five of these I answered the next time I saw her #, I tried so hard to explain the issue and she kept saying “yeah I know what robot calls are, but I’m asking why are YOU, who is not a robot, calling me” I just blocked her number after that, I did my best to explain!

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That's a built-in setting on most mobiles these days.

What about the ones that come from an email address and not a phone number, and therefore can't be blocked on my phone? Will they get rid of those too?

Thank god my Amazon account has been “locked” 8 times this werk

My phone number was leaked during one of the many data leaks that seem to happen every year, after that any chance for good phone hygiene was donezo

I mean, cool but there's a loophole. FCC needs to mandate number authentication. None of this matters as long as spoofing works.

Email still sucks too. I’ve gotten dozens of spam messages since I refi’d. Got 71 since last night. So easy to see how this round started.

I work for UPS and cannot wait for the day customers stop coming in/calling because a text with 12 misspellings is telling them that a package they never ordered isn't coming and they need to provide their SSN to validate.

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Why doesn’t the FCC step in and stop our states from selling our personal info that we are required to provide to our DMV/BMV’s to get plates and licenses.

Is anyone else getting record amounts of these texts? I never used to get these now I’m getting 10-20 spam texts per day

It is as if the robo calls got replaced with scam messages.

One of the big reasons I stick with my pixel phone. I went to iPhone for a year and temporarily had a loaner Samsung for a few weeks. Google seems to be the only manufacturer that actually tries to block spam on calls and text. Any other phone I get at least five calls a day and constantly get text spam. On pixel I get none. Even if a call makes it past initial blocks it's screened and I can see the call hang up before the screening announcement finishes. I can go into spam messages and see thousands of blocked messages I was never bothered by. It really is bliss.

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How about just blocking 100% of mobile advertising as a whole? These companies all use something similar to send out texts and it’s ridiculously intrusive. I

Don’t hold your breath. Remember the FTC “Do not Call Registry”? That was 2003. Yeah, that’s working great, eh?

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Yeah no recovering from that

Again.

I mean it worked so well the last time.

I'd love it if this were a solution. My mother gets dozens of these every day. She's cognitively impaired and sometimes she *does* click the links in a text message no matter how fishy it is.

3? I literally get over 100

I am all of a sudden getting between 8-13 calls a DAY. It's ridiculous.

Ahh this is why I had to get my company registered with tcr, RingCentral was blowing up my work email stating if we used sms features, we had to register our brand and campaign...probably still won't help honestly

Doing this and banning calling from blocked or unknown number would reduce US call traffic by 80% a day. It's ridiculous to get all of these calls from what shows is a local number but you cannot call it back or it is literally someone else phone number that never called you.

Soo, i assume the FCC knows how to do that without privacy invasion, right?

How else are they going to contact you about that extended warranty or offer to buy the car from you ?

Wait, you mean that cute girl did not accidentally text me instead of her boyfriend?

I get mms messages from unknown numbers. Seriously? Who's going to download unknown crap from an unknown source?

I get about five or six phishing texts from these long winded strange email addresses with stupid link url's every week.

I've tried ATT's spam reporting and it does NOTHING but ask for more info that I can't get. Who the fuck knows what the "numerical address the text was from" is?

Calls to customer service tell me in broken English to follow the same procedure that doesn't work or use the "block all messages that aren't in my contact list." Which is stupid in light of two factor authentication for most secure sites that rely on my receiving a code via text.

So, it's about time, but I don't think it's enough. Service providers should be responsible, or at least accountable, for harm done by people using their system as a tool for their dirty deeds. For them to be able to simply turn a blind eye and say "gee, not our problem" as rake in the profits is unconscionable.

I assume the only reason anything is happening is some politician or bureaucrat finally got fucked by a phishing attack so NOW it's important.

The FCC won't let me be.

> I assume the only reason anything is happening is so.e politician or bureaucrat finally got fucked by a phishing attack so NOW it’s important.

Which is one reason why I think political representatives should be like the people they represent: if our problems are their problems too, then they’re interested in finding solutions to those problems—with the added benefit of being in a position empowered to actually do something about them.

Answer phone. Mute microphone right away. Wait till they hang up.

Most of those are probably outside the US tbh

Yeah I’m wondering if the text from email will actually be stopped under this

I can live with that.

I'm all for sending over a few drones. It's not like we don't know how.

That's never stopped us before.

If you answer the phone you go on a list of people who actually answer and you’ll get more calls.

Can confirm. Don’t pick up at all. I used to bait scammers into trolling them and pretending I’m old and feeble to mess with them and waste their time. Guessing one of the Indian scammers got pissed off enough he must’ve put my number on every single scam call list in India because I went from 2-3 scam calls a day to over a dozen. It’s best to just not pick up the phone. If it’s not a scammer and even remotely important, they’ll leave a voicemail

So, I used to get a whole bunch. I have certain tricks.

For one, and I don't know if maybe I filled out some form with fake information on the Internet or what, but the scammers all have the name Newell Johnson attached to my (20 year old) phone number. So whenever they would ask for Mr Johnson, I was on their game right away.

When I found out about the bot Lenny (r/itslenny if you don't know), I would always ask them to hold and then for those to him.

The number of calls seemed to triple in a month.

Well then when I got tired of it, I started saying he had passed away.

The number of calls went down to nearly zero overnight after just one or two cases.

So, that tells me they are all using the same active server or some sort of centralized list they are sharing.

Nowadays, I always answer with a business greeting. Whenever a live person comes on the line, I always act like I'm taking notes. They ask me a screening question, and I just say okay. Then they forward me to the valuable people whose time they don't like to waste, and I say "well hi, Mr X. Pleased to speak with you, my name is u/MississippiJoel of company Y. How are you doing today?"

"Is this a business? Click."

block spoofed numbers next

Not sure how they can keep locking my Amazon account EVERY DAY. It’s LOCKED BRO.

It might be built in that it says “potential spam” but they still call and they show up every day.

I don't mean that, I mean a setting to automatically block potential spam numbers. You can also auto block unlisted numbers and unsaved numbers on some phones, with workarounds (eg call twice within 3 minutes).

I have all those presets. I still get the spam calls.

How are you still getting spam calls through if your phone blocks all unsaved and unlisted numbers?

Meh it worked for me. Was explained to me as: You'll get put on a list of dead numbers. Most of the scammers use autocallers so speaking into the microphone is what triggers the connection, so you answer but when no noise ever goes into the microphone (cause mute) the auto caller hangs up. It never registers a person on the other end and sorts you onto the list of dead numbers.

You should just trust me, I've been on the run from the CRA and CBSA for years with hundreds of warrants out for my arrest but they lost track of me when I did this.

And if the onlinehome.us web host is hosting all these phishing sites, why don't they block stuff with return addresses from them? Traffic is business, criminal or otherwise.