This is a good step in the right direction regardless of what the "nay Sayers" are complaining about.
The biggest part of stopping (or at least slowing down) the spammers, scammers, robocallers, and telemarketers is removing the tool that they use the most - spoofing. They hide behind blocked numbers, fake numbers, and even the victim's very own phone number. Then there is no way available to we victims to trace back to who called or from where. Eliminating spoofing would make it at least possible to know who is calling and from where.
Putting your number on the national "do not call" list only has limited effectiveness for a few reasons. First, the enforcing body (the FCC) chooses not to aggressively pursue violators. Telemarketers will hide behind a fake number that is usually not a working number. Trying to prosecute opens up a whole can of worms in determining who called and from where. Many (if not most) telemarketers and robocallers are calling from offshore locations that are generally out of the jurisdiction of the FCC. Anti-spoofing measures would definitely make it easier to identify and block the unwanted calls.
For the most part, I simply cannot understand why any of them want to call folks that are not going to buy their stuff and simply do not want to be bothered.
At the same time, I also do not understand why the FCC does not take a more active role in prosecuting "do not call" violators. The law does provide for some heavy fines for those violations.
Will the scammers find ways around new regulations? Probably, but it will take them time and money to do it. By that time, there may be even more countermeasures to use against them.
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