Finally Our Congress is Doing Something About Spoofing Calls

A free class at the local community college is an ideal way to teach people how to recognize the scams.
Although in most rural areas it will have to be done at the local high school.

Another useless law that wont work.There is no answer to these scumbags.They will always find away around it.Im taking all electronics out of my house.That's the only way to do it hurt the companies that make alot of money on phones ,computer usage.

Everyone that is nay-saying needs to remember that, currently, phone carriers are considered common carrier utilities and by law must transmit calls they receive to the intended parties.
This means when a robo-caller dials, it floats out of the void into the telephone system, who then sends it to you.
Yes they can provide blocks that you specify for numbers or flags, but they still must receive and transmit the call.

What the changes under consideration are is to allow for exceptions, the carrier can choose to refuse to accept the call.
So the robo-caller dials, it floats out of the void and the carrier says NO.
That call never makes it out of the void, nobodies phone ever rings.

The robo-dialer can spoof its CID or ANI to try and trick the carriers, but it will not take long before the carriers figure out that its a robo, and cut them off.

In theory, and hopefully practice, it shouldn't take long before large blocks of robo-sources are simply denied access.
Of course, this means all carriers need to get on board.

Easier said than done. Obviously criminals, being criminals, don't care about the law. We'll just have to see what happens.

We all know what ever is in a proposed bill does not mean beans until it is passed and by that time it has been sniped re-written and amended...what filters down is usually the lowest common denominator or the path of least resistance. Well, the easiest thing for them to do is to pass legislation to ban ALL spoofing...witch will only affect law biding citizens.

As a baiter and anti-scam activist, I use spoofing tools to gather info. ( I fight other forms of fraud than just phone scams.) I am not the only one...there are many of us.

This law is a symbolic gesture that will not affect scams, it would only take away a tool used against them.

I don't think I can clarify any better in plain English "it" and "this", if you don't understand my point than just go on thinking what ever you want.

I don't like drama. It upsets me and stresses me out. Playing mind games is a waste of time IMHO.
My emotional structure is simplistic. No reflection on my intelligence level. That's how I like to live my personal life.
I only befriend women who are like me, the few that are straight forward, candid AND intelligent.

You bring up a good point.

"they still must receive and transmit the call. What the changes under consideration are is to allow for exceptions, the carrier can choose to refuse to accept the call."

I did not know that phone carriers had no choice in the matter. But is giving them the choice really enough?

So we are going to give the telephone company the right to decide which calls we get?  OK, what happens when the robodialer spoofs your phone number, and the telephone company says hey, we aren't accepting calls from your number any more?

Don't think on the number level, its the connection level.
As in, the robo's have to connect to the phone system somewhere and that is something that can't be spoofed.
Via a call center? Carriers disconnect it.
Via a VoIP node? VoIP carrier block the connection, if unwilling, carriers down stream can block the node.
Via a 3 world country? Carriers there block the connection, if unwilling, carriers down stream block the hub.
Via someone hacking/splicing into a trunk? That's pretty easy to find and very illegal already.

Also forwarding out of a business PBX - hackers love to get into those devices.
Especially over the hours the business is closed and has no one on the premises.
Some businesses don't find out until thousands of dollars have accrued.