Posted by aziaziazi 3 hours ago
I've got it configured to block on a country basis, with previous calls and contacts as a whitelist - that works for me.
I am from India and I use Truecaller premium to filter calls. It has become a big head-ache, making us to miss important calls
However, the only way to solve this I believe is that you could once you get an unsolicited call to press a combination like ##01, and automatically this is passed to an agency that deals to punish whoever is behind the call in real time. At least if they call from a national number.
Oo
(and I am french)
(I am jesting. Fuck telemarketing.)
There's absolutely a real, qualitative difference between contact from a real human being who respects everyone's time and has done actual research, and someone who is just playing the numbers game and blasting as many people as they can (regardless of how "warm" the leads are).
It's a bit of a spectrum, but if someone has taken the time to handwrite and research an email or call, I'll at least try to give them the courtesy of a response.
I'm in North America and most of the calls I get are using local numbers, often spoofed from (I suspect) South and South East Asia. Good luck enforcing Canadian or American law in literal slave camps on the China-Myanmar border.
The call centers themselves are in Morocco but the calls never come from +212.
"just"?
Or is it deliberately done because it is cheaper?
Why not have these in France proper giving jobs to French people?
> Or is it deliberately done because it is cheaper?
Well, of course it is.
> Why not have these in France proper giving jobs to French people?
Because you would have to pay them French wages, which would make no economical sense. If anything, the fact that most of that industry is abroad probably makes it easier to pass such a law.
So, same for any profession. Why have any jobs in the EU at all then?
As for international scam calls, not sure what the situation is in France and what measures they have in place, but one relatively easy way is to block international callers from spoofing a local caller ID, which decimated these calls in Finland a couple of years ago: https://traficom.fi/en/news/obligations-regulation-come-effe...
Anecdotally I’ve not heard as much about it being a problem in other places such as the UK.
We broke everything up and let any old player enter the telco world over here which broke the entire sanctity of the security of the telephone network.