Level 3 Communications

Level 3 is a bulk reseller of internet bandwidth. Around here one of their biggest customers is Verizon, so most of my local calls come via Level 3.

Ok, Maybe I'm wrong...won't be the first time. Just my own experience every L3 call I got was a telemarketer...usually a fake charity...but I guess I was judging based on limited data.

How do you know they're coming from Level 3?

look up on Google, or sometimes it's on the caller id.

As a matter of fact, the last time one of those fake charities contacted me, it read: "LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS" across my caller id, so you can see why someone does not need to be a complete idiot to come to conclusions or make assumptions. There is no need for snarky comments.  Thanks for your simple answer.

Can't we all just Get along.

Let's reregulate telecommunications force identity verification and stop the destruction of our national phone service.  Deregulation has not led to better services rather opened the door to abuse, whether corporate, scammers or bait and switch services.

So your idea is that because someone sells something, they are responsible of its use?  So if Chevy sells a car and that person goes out gets drunk and gets into an accident that kills someone, Chevy is responsible?  If a pharmacist fills a prescription and that person sells those pills on the street, and someone dies, is the pharmacist responsible?  Please enlighten me, because I guess I am not seeing the correlation (which does not in fact prove causation) in your theory.  Not to mention that I just read a forum post not to long ago where Level 3 was instrumental in taking down scammers.

yes some one called me from a 330-236-0346 saying it was a payday loan that i had and if i didnt pay it back by 5 i will have a warrant issue for my ARREST

Caller ID can be spoofed. And usually is, by scammers.

"the last time one of those fake charities contacted me, it read: "LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS" across my caller id"

If the caller spoofs the Caller ID number, the CNAM lookup with return the owner of that number. That doesn't mean the call actually came from there. Usually quite the reverse.

I know what spoofing is, HOWEVER....a lot of times I Google a number and it belongs to Level 3 and it is the number actually used by scam company. Yes, I research and find out.

You gave a satisfactory explanation, leave it at that.

Not the same thing. More like a drug pusher peddling drugs than a Chevy....Or ANY of the unethical things people sell. How about the guy who sells synthetic marijuana and takes no responsibility for the kid who crashes the chevy?...But that's alright because there were no laws against selling synthetic marijuana at that time. (RL scenario) The one instance where they help catch scammers makes up for all the fake charities that get publicly busted, yet continue to work using Level 3? I may be wrong from time to time, but where there's smoke there's often fire. Every single time I look up a number and it's connected with Level 3, it just so happens to be a nuisance call center. So that's my PERSONAL experience with them and it's not hard to figure out why I'm not Level 3's biggest fan. That article you mention has to do with hackers and malware, NOT TELEMARKETING SCAMS.
Level 3 is  also a software company and is just protecting their own  interests. If they really cared about the public, we would hear about MORE scammers being busted.

Sir Bedevere says they do infact cater to the public...I will take his word for it. After going to their website, I was under the impression they only service companies. Easy mistake to make because they say nothing about private phone lines.

It's like the fellow at the gas station who sells copper s.o.s. scrubbing pads behind the front counter. (the ones that just so happen to be used by crack heads to smoke crack with) The vendor is doing nothing wrong because we all know that ordinary people go to gas stations to buy copper s.o.s. scrubbing pads. Perfectly legit.

In this way, Level 3 is perfectly legit as well.

Sorry but your analogy is again flawed (sorry to use big words).  You see the drug dealer is already committing a crime by selling the drug, as opposed to Level 3 or the Chevy dealer who are doing nothing illegal.  But you go ahead and keep believing what you want because that is what belief perseverance is.  You see you will do nothing that might prove your wrong.