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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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coldpie ◴[25 Aug 25 16:14 UTC] No.45015453[source]▶
Good start. Next, put the people running these scam phone providers in jail.
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ahmeneeroe-v2 ◴[25 Aug 25 16:21 UTC] No.45015557[source]▶
Yes! Easy to forget that just because "we" don't fall for them, they're still incredibly harmful to our seniors and other vulnerable populations.

Also hate the scam "work from home for $125,000 per year" texts. They really prey on the desperate.

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jm4 ◴[25 Aug 25 17:20 UTC] No.45016265[source]▶
Exactly. My city started posting about online safety and warnings about various scams. Unfortunately, almost every one of them also mentions how a local resident was victimized. We have a fairly large senior population.

It's easy to say it's idiots who fall for this stuff when we're young enough to have grown up in this world or started using new technology at an early age. We will be the ones targeted someday and it will be a medium that didn't become available to us until later in life just like what the seniors are experiencing now.

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1. mulmen ◴[25 Aug 25 23:37 UTC] No.45020530[source]▶
Apple makes it extremely easy to fall prey to email scams. They absolutely refuse to show an email address in less than 3 taps. There’s no setting in Mail to always show the address and they trust all senders to give an honest name. So if a contact loses their contact list scammers can send a known name with a junk address and you won’t see it unless you go out of your way.

Apple makes a lot of dumb user-hostile decisions but this one is particularly egregious and has caught me off guard.