{"id":137311,"date":"2018-10-11T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/spam-and-telemarketers-and-con-men-will-find-a-way.html"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:08:32","slug":"spam-and-telemarketers-and-con-men-will-find-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/spam-and-telemarketers-and-con-men-will-find-a-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Spam and Telemarketers and Con Men will find a way"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the FCC did a little stiffening of anti-robocall regulation last year, the folk doing this kind of thing managed to "evolve" to get around the regs and the minimal efforts the telcos went to in implementing them.<\/p>\n

The AGs of 35 states are urging the FCC to do more. The telcos are urging the FCC to give them "safe harbor" from false positives in doing so. The "legit" telemarketing world is getting nervous about draconian measures …<\/p>\n

… and the phone just keeps on ringing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nRobocallers “evolved” to sidestep new call blocking rules, AGs tell FCC<\/a><\/span>
\nThirty-five states urge FCC to let carriers block “neighbor spoofing” calls.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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After the FCC did a little stiffening of anti-robocall regulation last year, the folk doing this kind of thing managed to "evolve" to get around the regs and the minimal efforts the telcos went to in implementing them. The AGs of 35 states are urging the FCC to do more. The telcos are urging the … Continue reading “Spam and Telemarketers and Con Men will find a way”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4971,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/24\/what_number_ple.html","url_meta":{"origin":137311,"position":0},"title":"What number, please?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Nov-03 12:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Huzzah! 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