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FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections

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379 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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godelski ◴[25 Aug 25 18:18 UTC] No.45017040[source]▶
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

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runako ◴[25 Aug 25 21:04 UTC] No.45018994[source]▶
> All of which have my same area code, which is for a location I haven't live at for over 15 years

I am in a similar situation. One of my not-yet-implemented projects is to route my phone through a VOIP app that automatically blocks any number from my phone's area code (or even the whole state) where the caller is not in my contact list.

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1. godelski ◴[25 Aug 25 21:18 UTC] No.45019160[source]▶
A few times it has been bad enough I've thought about picking up learning how to make phone apps so that I can one click report the numbers to the FCC. I'm not sure it'll do something but making an explicit "fuck you, do something about this" statement tends to help. Squeaky wheel and all that... (Why is this not a feature in the base phone app?)