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like me one of the first things you do when you wake up is check your phone and
see if you've missed anything exciting and ooh what's this a flashing
notification light oh wait bloody hell it's a missed call from
some number in some far-flung area code or even another country altogether and
they didn't even leave a voicemail how
rude well assuming it wasn't a wrong
number or another angry call from some debt collection vulture there's a good
chance that you've been Robo called this
is essentially the telephone equivalent to email spam which you can learn more
about here but unlike the messages that
inhabit your email accounts junk folder robo calls and other kinds of phone spam
can be far more intrusive and because
they don't have subject lines it can also be much more difficult to know
whether a call from a random number is from a scammer or an annoying political
campaign before you pick up so why is
Robo calling so pervasive and what can
you do about it well although telemarketing was obviously around way
before the internet era modern voice over IP or VoIP services like Google
Hangouts or Skype have made it much easier to call tons of different phone
numbers at once many times unscrupulous
callers that use automatic dialer x' don't even bother working off of a
database they just call tons of random combinations hoping that if they throw
enough darts some of them will hit a target VoIP has also made it extremely
easy for Robo callers and scammers to
use a trick called caller ID spoofing where a phone call will show up as being
from a different number than it actually is and although this isn't a rock-solid
way for callers to mask their true identities it is very effective at
defeating spam detection systems wait a
minute spam detection systems so we have
solutions in place they just don't work well sort of many modern smartphones can
connect to databases that check incoming calls against known spam numbers and
provide a visual warning if there's a match letting you know that you may not
want to answer and there are third-party apps that provide similar functionality
but as I mentioned before these aren't
perfect solutions due to the caller ID spoofing and the fact that some of the
data is crowd-sourced and inherently
error-prone data collection method furthermore if you're on a more
traditional landline these spam spotting features may be completely unavailable
to you so unsurprisingly governments
have tried to legislate the problem out of existence
with mixed success who didn't see that one coming right the United States has
had a Do Not Call Registry for 14 years where you can sign up to tell
telemarketers not to contact you but this doesn't cover completely automated
calls just ones with a human on the other end trying to sell you the world's
most powerful toilet plunger or whatever so the FCC in the u.s. is currently
attempting to work with major carriers to block spoofed numbers that aren't
assigned to anyone on record so as to reduce scam robo calls many of which
have actually ripped people off or stolen their personal data by pretending
to be tax collectors or other government officials however robocopy
however robocalling is still allowed
under a number of circumstances for example you may still get calls from
polling firms taking surveys or more irritatingly from political campaigns
and committees during election season which makes me wonder if I should start
my own single issue political party focused on reading the country of phone
spam completely then again we need to
find some way to get the word out hmm do
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