Damn scammers

[johnridley]

We REALLY need to have the law changed to make caller ID masking illegal. This friggin' "Credit Card Services" scam has called me 3 times in the last year now. It was kind of fun at first wading through their phone system to a human, then seeing how fast they hung up when I asked for a phone number for their company (it's like they have their finger already on the hookswitch, that's how fast) but it's getting tiresome now.

What I'd REALLY like is for the caller ID, and for that matter, the opt-out list, to work for political campaigns too (robocallers) but that's never going to happen. Politicians would have to pass such a law.

Comments

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

It's really simple. I look at the caller ID, then answer.

If I get a "warning", I hang up, and call the bank/whatever's security number.

I need to just build the CallerID filtering system. It's time to handle phone the same way I handle email -- with a killfile and filter set in between them and the ringer.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have caller ID. Since I know it's broken, I don't see much point in paying for it.

If we got a lot of irritating calls it'd be different, but the national DNC list has worked well for us. We still get irritations, but only maybe 2 or 3 a week.

What really bothers me about this is that I'd really like to be able to get enough on these scammers to get some action going against them. Or even better, actually being able to find the numbers of the individuals that I'm sure the central robot is forwarding the calls to for their scam-at-home operations.

As far as filtering, I think Grand Central can do that for you.