Does this work for texts, too? Yesterday I got a spam text where the caller was clearly spoofing a phone number that was similar to mine (same first 6 digits).
I’m clearly receiving fewer spam calls on both home and business numbers.
Yesterday afternoon while riding the bus to work, I got a call that the caller ID said was coming from a major hospital in a nearby city. I pretty much never answer the phone unless I’m expecting a call, and I certainly wasn’t expecting a call from that institution, but it’s plausible that someone in my family might wind up there if something happened to them, so I answered.
It was a robocall trying to sell me an extended warranty for my car (and I haven’t owned a car since 2018.)
So the system clearly needs some work.
Verizon is now identifying the caller as likely to be spam on my personal cell.
I’m getting just as much spam as ever. The caller ID generally has the name of a city and state. So maybe not spoofed, but still spam.
The FCC did say that the smaller phone networks will have more time to comply. Perhaps the spammers are taking advantage of that to have their calls go through those networks. I don’t think the volume of spam calls has changed all that much for me, but I’m on a VOIP provider (phonepower) which is probably one of the smaller ones.
Landline spam used to be 1 or 2 calls per day, now nothing. Cell phone spam was a couple a day, now one every day or two. Got a extended warranty call on my cell yesterday, I let Android screen it.
I really wish the FCC would (have) adopt(ed) the European approach*: On top of the carrier charges, callers pay for calls, not receivers. Sure, that would still cost me to own a cell-phone and it would cost the marketers & scammers pretty much the same amount. However, the scammers would be paying a LOT more for initiation fees (for each number dialed & connected) as well as seconds or minutes of call duration – and if I wanted to set my phone down and watch the SuperBowl while a telemarketer droned on about my extended skateboard warranty, it wouldn’t cost me an extra dime.
That would still be worthwhile to political and marketing surveyers (who would probably just pass the cost along to the entities buying the results and analysis) but probably not so worthwhile to scammers.
–G!
*Or has Europe switched over to the USA model now?
Not yet. I pay 149 DKK a month (about $24) for free speech, 30 Gb data, free SMS and MMS and Spotify.
I think most Danish mobile phones has packages like that.
There is no charges, for me, if people call me.