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Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom]

From danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.dcom.telecom
Subject Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom]
Date 2011-03-30 14:28 +0000
Organization The Telecom Digest
Message-ID <imvelm$spv$3@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <94096.50087.qm@web52706.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <i8figf$dot$1@reader1.panix.com> <i8l1ns$7lq$2@pcls6.std.com> <oed6p6hb51hiesvf0ppuhdh6a484j1nkuk@4ax.com>

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In <oed6p6hb51hiesvf0ppuhdh6a484j1nkuk@4ax.com> "\(PeteCresswell\)" <x@y.Invalid> writes:

>Per Michael Moroney:
>>Speaking of which, how does "Rachel" and her gang get into the public
>>telephone system with such high volume, undetected (undetected enough
>>so that apparently nobody can seem to find them) ?  VOIP?

>According to the letters I've been getting from the Pennsylvania
>Attorney General's office (in response to my filing complaints
>about telemarketing calls to my cell phone), telemarketers are
>using VOIP services to spoof callerIDs, relaying calls between
>providers, and moving offshore - all of which, according the atty
>gen's office, make prosecution impossible for them.

Which, of course, is total garbage. Just get ahold of someone
who's been scammed by these folk and trace the credit card
transaction.

Could "Rachel" get away with this for a few weeks? Sure. But
this specific group has been active for over a year. And
the calls are coming to my numbers in multiple parts of
the country.

- What I don't understand is why the FCC/FTC are doing
diddly squat. Well, I can understand why that would be
their initial position, but Congressional folk are getting
hefty numbers of complaints. (And they're getting their
own batch of calls, too).



-- 
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
		     dannyb@panix.com 
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

***** Moderator's Note *****

Congressmen have _all_ their numbers on a special "don't even think
about it" list, which _every_ telemarketeer obeys carefully. After
all, Congressmen are much more important than ordinary people, so they
can't be having their time wasted.

Bill Horne
Moderator

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Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom] "\(PeteCresswell\)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2011-03-30 09:55 -0400
  Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom] danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2011-03-30 14:28 +0000
    Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom] danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2011-03-30 17:38 +0000
      Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom] "Pete Cresswell" <x@y.Invalid.telecom-digest.org> - 2011-03-31 11:06 -0400
      Re: 'Robo-call' law in limbo after lawsuit fails [telecom] "Pete Cresswell" <x@y.Invalid.telecom-digest.org> - 2011-03-31 13:12 -0400

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