[iAMkenough]

In my case, the old dead guy that had my number before gave his number to some booth at the state fair (or so one spammer claimed). And then that number got sold to all sorts of medical scammers and political campaigns.

I always ask what my name is when an unknown caller calls, and 90% of the time it’s the old dead guy.

I did not opt in, yet here I am getting a few dozen calls per week at all hours of the day.

[simfree]

For TCPA compliance purposes, they should be pulling the deactivated numbers list (which Twilio offers for free), checking the do not call list, and querying the reassigned numbers database to establish safe harbor against TCPA lawsuits.

This is really expensive to do (the RND and Do Not Call lists are very expensive to query, the FCC needs to make these cheaply available) and automation for doing these queries is not offered by most phone providers.