Skelekin @ Comms Closed: I think it's a combination of the US government being mostly lazy or incompetent at implementing regulations, and that in India for example the government is often paid off to let the scam centers keep doing their thing

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

And we have officially ceded an entire communications medium to thieves because nobody can be arsed to do anything about it

Government exists to do just that but ours is so utterly broken by the plutocrats that nothing can happen anymore.

This one in particular baffles me because who the fuck is taking money from these scam companies? I think it’s more the GOP has gotten so deranged they have no idea how to even accomplish anything anymore, and will never let anything good happen on a democrat’s watch

I think it's a combination of the US government being mostly lazy or incompetent at implementing regulations, and that in India for example the government is often paid off to let the scam centers keep doing their thing

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