Want it to stop today? 5K fine per call on the telco originating the call, not allowed to pass fines on to customers, with potential jail time for executives of the telco if they are fined too many times. The telcos know where the calls are coming from and can instantly stop them were they given the correct incentives. I work for a rather large telecom and know this for a fact, but I am a little peon whose word means nothing so I can't do it. It's just a matter of not allowing spoofing, a simple switch option, and shutting down numbers they recieve complaints about. I can see allowing a couple hundred complaints being the action threshold with 500 being the start fining threshold and 5000 being the jailtime threshold, just to give them time to ID the spammer and stop them without incurring a fine because someone decides to make a complaint about a business due to an argument or something.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
