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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:15 AM Jun 2019

Cortez Masto introduces bill to curb robocalls

The content of the calls is always familiar but slightly varied — your credit is bad, your credit card is overdrawn, your student loan payments are due. Robocalls are not only annoying, but prerecorded telemarketing calls are illegal in most cases.

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has introduced a bill to create stronger punishments for people found to be behind illegal robocalls.

“I don’t know of anybody who hasn’t been impacted by (these calls),” said Cortez Masto, noting they are frequently used to scam the elderly. “These calls are being made to the most vulnerable people of our community.”

The current punishment for robocalls is a civil penalty, which has failed to deter the practice, Cortez Masto said.

Read more: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/jun/13/cortez-masto-introduces-bill-to-curb-robocalls/

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Cortez Masto introduces bill to curb robocalls (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP

these calls must be stopped rampartc Jun 2019 #1

I believe these calls need to be stopped Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #2

Please somebody do something. I have tried to stop them for years and it is worse now. katmondoo Jun 2019 #3

Ignore them! coolcat_riley Jun 2019 #7

And McTurtle will block the bill to spite Democrats meow2u3 Jun 2019 #4

They need to be stopped, but most of them are from overseas MiniMe Jun 2019 #5

Just your daily reminder that Trump killed all the robocall restrictions Blue_Tires Jun 2019 #6

rampartc

(5,413 posts)

1. these calls must be stopped

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 04:30 AM

Jun 2019

I can not walk into their call center with automatic weapons because, among other things, I don't think the old pobtiac will make it over the Himalayas. but the thought has crossed my mind.

our government is sweeping up all of this "metadata" on every call, why can't someone find out where the irs scam calls are coming from and send in a seal team to stop them?

one idea that I like is to add a small charge, maybe a penny, to each outgoing call. these charges could be deducted from the monthly bill so that only people making over several thousand calls per month would pay anything. I don't make a thousand calls per month, but maybe a phone bill in the hundreds of dollars might encourage the robocallers to be more selective.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

2. I believe these calls need to be stopped

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 06:13 AM

Jun 2019

This is another reason I support Andrew Yang as he has already developed a policy on this subject.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/robo-calling-text-line/

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)

3. Please somebody do something. I have tried to stop them for years and it is worse now.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 09:00 AM

Jun 2019

Up to 7 or 8 a day.

coolcat_riley

(29 posts)

7. Ignore them!

Reply to katmondoo (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 18, 2019, 06:24 AM

Jun 2019

Sorry to hear that, dude. Were the calls came from scammers, or legit businesses? I personally used to get 5-10 calls daily from those spammers. I tried to ignore those calls. Along with time, the amount of those calls will significantly decreased. After few years, now I rarely get those calls. The most recent, few days ago, I received 2 calls within 24 hours from 760-810-4313. Like always, I ignored the calls and Googled up the number. I found some reports have been filed at https://www.whycall.me/760-810-4313.html since more than a year ago. I just blocked the number and didn't get anymore calls until today.