Spam calls stopped? New STIR/SHAKEN phone standand aims to end spoofed Caller-ID

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Spam calls stopped? New STIR/SHAKEN phone standand aims to end spoofed Caller-ID

It looks like the FCC is rolling out a new standard for phone networks which is designed to ensure that the Caller-ID you see on your phone is valid. This should greatly limit the ability for spammers to operate and should make it a lot easier to block spammers. Currently, spammers can put whatever they want in the Caller-ID. It’s why you get spam calls which have random Caller-ID numbers. But with STIR/SHAKEN the number is validated as it passes through the phone networks as actually origina…

Comcast/Xfinity evidently has been using it since at least April and we’ve noticed a decline in spoofed numbers.