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If they had to give me five dollars for every spam call that got through, I bet they'd find a way to stop it.

T-mobile already classifies these calls as 'Scam likely' and they've never seemed to misclassify any, so obviously it can be done.



Some government call centers got mistakenly labeled ‘Spam Likely’. People were denied food stamps and other benefits for missing phone interviews from these numbers.

Took a long time to clear up in California.


Yeah they would just block all of your calls. Probablem solved


> and they've never seemed to misclassify any

They do, my local politician robo-calls all his constituents with info, and T-Mobile always flags his calls as spam.

I guess in a way it's spam since it's unsolicited? But it's real info, and relevant to the local people he's calling, and keeping people informed is part of his job.


| They do, my local politician robo-calls all his constituents with info, and T-Mobile always flags his calls as spam.

That’s a feature, not a bug.


> politician

> robo-calls

Yeah that sounds like spam. If info needs to get sent out, try email. Robo-calls are intrusive, and generally the wrong medium for transmitting information.

Edit: Obtrusive -> intrusive. Although I guess both are technically correct.


> But it's real info, and relevant to the local people he's calling

That's the way pretty much every spammer justifies their existence and somehow manages to sleep at night.

The only reason robocalling by politicians is not illegal is because it's them who get to make the laws. They should all get in the sea, alongside all the other spammers.


Unless it's something they specifically signed up for, robo-calling all your constituents absolutely is spam.


I have been getting unsolicited e-mail from my local state rep, and I actually appreciate it. It's not campaign-type stuff, it's actual info about what's happening in this district and resources that are being provided.

Granted that feels different than a phone call, but the intent may be the same.


Although with email, you have the spam filter. It's just that those emails are not being picked up by it.

Also, usually, you can unsubscribe to email lists/sender. While you can't do that for phone calls. You might block a specific number, but those robo-calls might use many different numbers


Keeping people informed about their product is a way to describe the job of every spammer.




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