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by petesergeant 1137 days ago
I think you might be right here, but what does that look like exactly? Stop companies distributing cheap SIMs? Force them to get ID from any customer?
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fathyb 1137 days ago
Maybe a standarized national system to report spam, or maybe even as part of the cellular protocol? I never heard of such a system deployed nationally, but I'm wondering if it could help.

Most of the time when a spam number calls me, I can find it through spam reports on 3rd party websites by googling it.

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NoZebra120vClip 1137 days ago
> Most of the time when a spam number calls me, I can find it through spam reports on 3rd party websites by googling it.

Oh, you mean that you can identify the Caller ID number which the spammer chose to spoof at you?

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fathyb 1137 days ago
No, it seems most spammers here use cheap SIMs without spoofing (which seems to be what OP is about). They even leave voicemail messages asking to call back.

But spoofing is also something that should be fixed. I know it's difficult because of VoIP and backwards-compatibility, but it's not impossible either.

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DANmode 1137 days ago
> Maybe a standarized national system to report spam, or maybe even as part of the cellular protocol?

Not government, but, forwarding spam texts to 7726 (SPAM) works for various carriers.

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