Increase in spam calls and e-mails (1 Viewing)

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20 emails from someone using this App on Chrome
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You're playing a game of whac-a-mole. Shut one down and another will take its place in no time. Good luck.

more like whack-a-cockroach! I still get weekly inquiries on an LLL.com I sold like 5 years ago, so they're using VERY old databases of scraped whois data.

We should be doing a class action lawsuit against Rogers/Bell/Telus/etc because they transmit bulk scam & phishing messages via text to unlisted numbers. You can't fucking tell me they cant stop it, they just don't want to. These messages are all formulaic, a 12 y/o could write a filter to stop these messages in their tracks.

rlm said:

We should be doing a class action lawsuit against Rogers/Bell/Telus/etc because they transmit bulk scam & phishing messages via text to unlisted numbers. You can't fucking tell me they cant stop it, they just don't want to.

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Of course they can stop it and even the corporate lapdog CRTC has told them to and the system was even designed and in place. Was, as a lot changed in the intervening years.

Bell and Rogers make way too much money from these scam calls and texts (pay per use, overage charges, plan upgrades, etc.) that they continually make excuses why they can't do it.

Look at this old article from 2021... LOL

Spam calls no more: STIR/SHAKEN will be implemented by end of month, says CRTC chair

Instead Bell and Rogers got extension after extension (July 2023 was supposed to be the FINAL cutoff ), and were allowed to water down the requirements for blocking calls to a point where the system is basically useless, such as trying to omit cell phones and other digital devices as much as possible and concentrate on this ever-popular copper landlines.

Hardly surprising Bell and Rogers were allowed to pull this crap, as the CRTC is fully funded and controlled by the telco companies.

Yes Virginia, the CRTC is "funded directly from contributions made by large Canadian telecommunications service providers whose total annual Canadian revenues are $10 million or greater."

yeah, canada likes to do that. even investment services are self-regulated by IIROC, which is an industry-funded organization to "regulate" themselves.