I just got woken up by a robocall from (302) 307 1421 about cheap Medicare insurance. I pressed '1' to hear their agent and get a chance to vent at him/her, but it hung up on me. The phone number on Caller ID was spoofed.
15 minutes later, I got a call from (954) 464-6968 - a Robert Weiner, who wanted to ask about that Medicare insurance. I asked him if he had ever heard of the No Call list - he hung up on me.
So, another email to Rep. Pocan:
Dear Rep. Pocan,
Isn't it about time for Congress to address the spate of robocalls and caller ID spoofing? It's 9 PM here and I just got a robocall from 302 307 1421 'Polling Quest' - asking about if I wanted a cheap Medicare policy - just press 1. It got me out of bed. The call hung up on me after I did press 1.
15 minutes later, I got a call from 354 464 6968 'Robert Weiner' - the 'agent for this scam. Asked him if he had ever heard of the 'no call' list. He hung up. I called back - it told me the number was disconnected, but still allowed me to leave a terse message.
How about a law making these calls illegal? How about some prison time for anyone who spoofs a Caller ID signal?
I'm an electrical engineer - and I know it would be trivial for the telcos to make caller ID unspoofable. The only reason they don't is that robocallers pay their phone bills, I expect.
Do something that will have a positive effect on all Americans, instead of just knee-jerk voting' NO on everything.
Kept getting robocalls about needing to "check" my credit card and others claiming my car's warranty was about to expire (in 4.5 years). I stayed busy turning them in to the FTC. The robocalls stopped! WI politicians may not be totally useless after all! That's assuming they had anything to do with stopping the calls, of course.
ReplyDeleteI ginore caller ID- if the number isn't already in my contacts list, it isn't getting answered.