The phone number system is so broken...

Scammers and spammers can DoS you by calling hundreds of times per day, each time from a different number, and all your service provider will do is shrug... saying there is no way to trace a number back to the provider, and the only "solution" they have to offer is a "new" phone number, which in fact is someone else's old number that THEY abandoned due to spam calls.

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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 1 pts · 276d
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 276d

There has been several attempts to resolve that but they are complex and expensive for T1 carriers to implement. Cowards.