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notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos if you're

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like me one of the first things you do when you wake up is check your phone and

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see if you've missed anything exciting and ooh what's this a flashing

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notification light oh wait bloody hell it's a missed call from

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some number in some far-flung area code or even another country altogether and

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they didn't even leave a voicemail how

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rude well assuming it wasn't a wrong

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number or another angry call from some debt collection vulture there's a good

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chance that you've been Robo called this

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is essentially the telephone equivalent to email spam which you can learn more

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about here but unlike the messages that

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inhabit your email accounts junk folder robo calls and other kinds of phone spam

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can be far more intrusive and because

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they don't have subject lines it can also be much more difficult to know

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whether a call from a random number is from a scammer or an annoying political

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campaign before you pick up so why is

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Robo calling so pervasive and what can

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you do about it well although telemarketing was obviously around way

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before the internet era modern voice over IP or VoIP services like Google

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Hangouts or Skype have made it much easier to call tons of different phone

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numbers at once many times unscrupulous

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callers that use automatic dialer x' don't even bother working off of a

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database they just call tons of random combinations hoping that if they throw

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enough darts some of them will hit a target VoIP has also made it extremely

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easy for Robo callers and scammers to

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use a trick called caller ID spoofing where a phone call will show up as being

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from a different number than it actually is and although this isn't a rock-solid

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way for callers to mask their true identities it is very effective at

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defeating spam detection systems wait a

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minute spam detection systems so we have

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solutions in place they just don't work well sort of many modern smartphones can

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connect to databases that check incoming calls against known spam numbers and

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provide a visual warning if there's a match letting you know that you may not

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want to answer and there are third-party apps that provide similar functionality

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but as I mentioned before these aren't

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perfect solutions due to the caller ID spoofing and the fact that some of the

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data is crowd-sourced and inherently

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error-prone data collection method furthermore if you're on a more

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traditional landline these spam spotting features may be completely unavailable

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to you so unsurprisingly governments

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have tried to legislate the problem out of existence

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with mixed success who didn't see that one coming right the United States has

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had a Do Not Call Registry for 14 years where you can sign up to tell

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telemarketers not to contact you but this doesn't cover completely automated

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calls just ones with a human on the other end trying to sell you the world's

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most powerful toilet plunger or whatever so the FCC in the u.s. is currently

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attempting to work with major carriers to block spoofed numbers that aren't

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assigned to anyone on record so as to reduce scam robo calls many of which

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have actually ripped people off or stolen their personal data by pretending

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to be tax collectors or other government officials however robocopy

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however robocalling is still allowed

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under a number of circumstances for example you may still get calls from

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polling firms taking surveys or more irritatingly from political campaigns

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and committees during election season which makes me wonder if I should start

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my own single issue political party focused on reading the country of phone

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spam completely then again we need to

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find some way to get the word out hmm do

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