FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections

On a side note, today and yesterday I've been bombarded with spam calls. Even got one while writing this comment. All of which have my same area code, which is for a location I haven't live at for over 15 years. No voice mail, nothing. It's not even this bad around election time.

Btw, if you haven't already, you can sign up for the FCC's Do Not Call list[0]. While obviously this isn't going to solve everything, it does make it illegal for legitimate companies to call you. Absent this incident, it did appear to have a significant effect in reducing spam calls when I signed up years ago. Also, here's some info about junk mail[1]. It costs about $6 and lasts 10 years.

[0] https://www.donotcall.gov/index.html

[1] https://consumer.ftc.gov/how-stop-junk-mail

The do not call list seems to be a "Spam me, you brute" list.

In the beginning, they seemed to take their job seriously, but I doubt that has been the case for many years.

Right after SHAKEN/STIR was passed, I got zero spoofed calls. I did get a few robocalls, but they weren't spoofed.

For a month or so. So that shows the problem can be solved, legislatively.

Then, they started coming back, and now, almost every call I get, is spoofed. This includes some legit ones.

Also, legit callers should keep in mind that the autodialer companies they employ, might also moonlight as spammers, so they get blacklisted. I have had quite a number of legit calls get listed as spam.

Cynically, I feel as if politicians are unwilling to get tough on these, because they (or their proxies) use them. That seems to be both sides of the aisle.

They figured out the flaw to SHAKEN/STIR. It was mandated for VOIP calls.

So instead these scam call centers switched to the legacy SS7, that's how you are getting all these fraudulent calls. SS7 is not IP based and incompatible with SHAKEN/STIR

And it'll be 400 years from now before any US telecom thinks about discontinuing SS7.