[HN Gopher] FCC slaps $300M fine on "largest illegal robocall op...
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       FCC slaps $300M fine on "largest illegal robocall operation" it's
       ever seen
        
       Author : hassanahmad
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-08-03 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | V__ wrote:
       | Can someone with more technological knowledge explain how this is
       | still a problem in _current year_? How is number spoofing still a
       | thing? These can 't be hard problems to solve.
        
         | rawgabbit wrote:
         | The phone carriers can detect a huge number of calls from the
         | same source and perform some automated checks, hey it is the
         | same size data packet every time, and get their internal team
         | to sniff out the spammers. The reason why they don't do this? I
         | have no ideas.
        
       | fsflover wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36989845
        
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