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Traced act signed into law. To fight against robocalls.
cause the rat:
The good news is it's passed into law. The bad news is it's most likely not to work. Because most robocalls originate outside the US.
Rocket T. Coyote:
I get strange calls that hangup on the fourth ring quite a bit. Caller ID only shows name of a town, or (Name of State) Call. Others list the phone number twice.
Jade Sinapu:
It does surprise me that with many phone calls being generated with voip, that the origin of the voice can not be accurately determined. Maybe this surprises me since I don't know all the details how it works?
With land line phones, the signal comes from a well defined place and goes straight to the phone company, and then to another place, and I bet it is easy to trace. Just a guess.
And with the out of country calls, wouldn't it be easier to identify these, since after all, the amount of overseas calls is probably a lot lower than calls within the USA?
So with that said, this can't be a new issue, tracing true origin of phone calls. And I would bet some agency has at least partly solved it and made a magic thing/ program to do it.
Nice to have a bill signed into law, but it won't matter unless someone publicly uses the magic trace tools.
But I wish they would do something. I have had several scam robocalls.
cause the rat:
The one I keep getting here lately,
"Please do not hang up. We are calling about the status of your account."
So I hang up anyway.
Jade Sinapu:
I got the one asking me to send my personal contact info to the Chinese consulate in Chicago because I had a package waiting there for my pickup... yeah... sure...I think I'll pass
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