For the past 2 weeks I have been getting calls from a company claiming to register companies for voice search optimization. I’ve repeatedly told them to stop calling me, to which they respond that the calls won’t relent until I sign up with their service. I’ve been threatened, mocked, and just straight hung up on, so now I enjoy just waisting as much of their time as possible. I filed a complaint last week, so I’m just logging all their calls to increase the inevitable fine (they’re US based, all of the agents are clearly American).
Comment on FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law
linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 months agoDon’t undersell the FCC’s rules around robocalling. No, we’re still getting robocalls out the ass, but when it comes from US locations companies get their asses handed to them. The FCC is also the entity that’s pushing the telcos to Make it possible to stop it from overseas sources. The new laws that went in place this year f***** up my twilio automation that was sending me SMS messages on server failures. All of a sudden I have a bunch of paperwork to fill out and a waiting list to be able to send an SMS via API.
If the FCC wasn’t impeding robocalls as much as it is phones would be useless by now.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 9 months ago
linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
tell them you’re interested, keep them on the line for as much time as possible, waste them every time. that becomes expensive for them at a point.
prole@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I feel like most of the decent filtering of these types of calls are happening at the carrier level at this point. At least in my experience. They’ve been getting better at filtering them out before your phone even rings…
But I’m not sure that’s how it should be. This is why regulatory agencies exist in the first place. What’s the point if there is zero enforcement?
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I also had the same setup and the same result from the A2P bullshit. Switched to email and DeltaChat instead and will be happy when I finish it lol.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
e result from the A2P bullshit. Switche
pagerduty has a free option that fit me.
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
For me that would be swapping out one rug pull for an inevitable other down the road, but thanks for the suggestion ♥️
linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was more than willing to pay for them, they want five accounts though. Like give me some way to pay for you that actually makes sense I’m totally down for it.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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Kalothar@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Man some of these are funny, bold and ironic
baatliwala@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lmao what on earth is that
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Not the worst thing someone has ever stuck on a photocopier.