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Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:02:24 -0800
On 12/19/19 11:27 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
There are robocalls that you want to get. Here in california, our wonderful electric company sends out robocalls when they are going to cut our electricity so they don't get blamed for burning down cities (and then still manage to anyway). I'm not sure if our earthquake alerts can robocall or not, but that would certainly be another one that you'd want to get. There are plenty more examples.On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote:I call your phone number. Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring through on match. If no match, "You have reached Name. Press 2 to leave a message. Press 3 to enter your code. Press 0 or stay on the line for an operator." Ring through on a valid code. If 0, the call connects to a call center where a live operator evaluates the call. Who am I? Why am I calling? Do I meet the plain-English criteria you've established for calls to allow through? If no, the operator offers to connect me to your voicemail. If yes, the operator dials you, explains who's calling and asks your permission to connect the call.It really doesn't (currently at least -- until robocallers start using voice recognition to defeat my system) need to be this complicated or over-engineered. A simple audio captcha works wonders. Hello. If you are a telemarketer, press 1. If you want to speak to somebody at this number, press 5. Anyone pressing 1 gets their caller-id added to my blacklist and is asked to add our number to their do not call list. In reality all telemarketers use robocallers so they don't even get that far. Anyone pressing 5 rings through (with additional processing described below).
Mike
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- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls, (continued)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Michael Thomas (Dec 20)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Christopher Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Michael Thomas (Dec 20)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Jared Mauch (Dec 20)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Rich Kulawiec (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Jeff Shultz (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Valdis Klētnieks (Dec 19)
- RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Keith Medcalf (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC ... [REALLY new laws US passed today (19/12/2019)] Fletcher Kittredge (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC ... [REALLY new laws US passed today (19/12/2019)] Christopher Morrow (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Michael Thomas (Dec 19)
- RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Keith Medcalf (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Valdis Klētnieks (Dec 19)
- RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Keith Medcalf (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Michael Thomas (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Large Hadron Collider (Dec 20)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Valdis Klētnieks (Dec 20)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Michael Thomas (Dec 19)
- RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls bzs (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Paul Timmins (Dec 19)
- Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls Dan Hollis (Dec 20)