I filed a complaint with the FCC about a company that has called before 9 am in the morning. Nowhere in the files says anything about that. In 30 days I had 16 calls out of 65 calls.
Well, during the FCC Robocall contest, I submitted an effective proposal, that the long distance phone co.s could compare the caller ID of calls being made in bulk with the circuit the call is actually coming in from; if they don't match, the caller ID is falsified and the calls can be blocked. I.e. 208 area code is Idaho... if the call is not physically from Idaho, drop it. Scammers would have to either stop dead or use their REAL caller ID then! (At the very least, roughly accurate -- if they are in Florida they may be able to spoof a different Florida number, but not a Chicago one.)
The "bulk" part would make it so things like Google Voice (that rely on Caller ID spoofing) could still work (unless someone abuses it by bulk dialing). It would also lower the computational burden of checking every single call, and would also accomodate roaming cell phones. Roaming cell phones and ported phone numbers would need an extra lookup (since the phone call may not be from the "original" location for the phone number) but there are already databases in place for these (after all, your call wouldn't go through otherwise.)
Once this is in place, I think they could also follow the policy that is used on the Internet... every so often, spammers will either start their own dirty ISP, or find one that doesn't care who gets service with them. If these ISPs do not clean up their act, the upstream Internet provider CUTS OFF THEIR SERVICE. Well, if some phone company is either fully dirty, or just "looking the other way", tell them to clean up their act or they will be CUT OFF FROM THE TELEPHONE NETWORK. I bet they'd clean up their act!
It was Rachel again, from Cardholder Services. They want to lower my credit card interest rate. They just hang up when I tell them that I don't have any balances on my cards.
This time, it sounded like an actual American answered, vs. a guy from India.
Why can these people keep calling my cell, of all the laws they make why not something about this. I have a call blocker program and it is to the point I am blocking states now not just numbers.