Subj : Re: Does Usenet still have value?
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Feb 13 2022 00:27:57

 Ar> I think the phone companies are on board with the phone spamming schemes.
 Ar> 
 Ar> I don't think phone spamming can render profits enough for the spammer
 Ar> unless they are getting a very cheap phone contract which allows them to
 Ar> make so many calls. That requires the collaboration of some phone
 Ar> provider that knows what is going on.
 Ar> 
 Ar> It sucks because I have heard, more than once, of a doctor having to
 Ar> phone a patient from our clinic in order to tell her something urgent,
 Ar> and never having the call received because the patient didn't recognize
 Ar> the phone number and thought it was just another mexican trying to sell
 Ar> her a new TV set.
 Ar> 

That is a possibility that there is collusion.  I've wondered about the cost to them of making all these calls.  I've been getting spam SMS's, on average once a day, maybe more about some package that is trying to be delivered.  They must be sending thousands of these, as I know others are getting them too.

Quite a few people just won't answer a call unless they know the number.
My wife is one of those. Unless she is expecting a particular call, if the number is not known, it isn't answered. My own calls went unanswered when I turned caller ID of from my phone.

I once called the wrong number twice in a row with my modem in the 90s and got a phone call from the phone company saying that they might take action against me if I didn't stop.  Today, you get the same calls from the same company over and over and over again, and the phone company just shrugs their shoulders.  They know who it is, I'm sure of it.

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