[arcticbull]

Apparently phone scammers hit Americans for $40B in 2022. At this point the economic incentives are significant enough that a federal budget line item may be in order.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/05/how-phone-scammers-tricked-a...

[ilyt]

The comment was about using it to answer scammers, not to do the scams.

Obviously for scammers it would be huge benefit as they are directly profiting off it.

[dist1ll]

The $40bn estimate was given by a company whose main product is spam prevention and call blocking.

I'd take that number with a huge grain of salt.