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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The only way it will ever stop is when Congress passed a law and directs the FCC to mandate all phone calls show the actual number calling, and eliminate the spoofing of numbers. I had one lady call me and was mad that I was calling her, and I had never called her, the spammers were using my phone number. One day I received a call from myself! It is impossible to call yourself, so I knew for certain it was a spam call.

When the FCC decides to make all the telecoms fix the spoofing of numbers, and make real caller ID show who is calling, the spam calls will stop.

I wish I had the money, and expertise to do the spam calls. I would find the phone number of the FCC big wigs, and set up calls for penis enlargement, and porn sites 100 time per day. Maybe then something would change.

The problem with that and the reason why it isn't likely to work is because of corporate environments. If you can imagine a downtown full of high rises full of people and desks, probably at least 50% of those folks DO NOT have a real phone number on their desk phone, so when someone sitting at a desk calls out to someone in the real world, the corporate phone system puts a real number in the "from" field. And depending upon the company and setup of things, there may be a bunch of different numbers that get used. So that ability to insert a from number has to stay.