Stir/Shaken

rekees4300 · Jun 30, 2021

Today 6/30/2021 could be the end of Robocalls!

A big deadline in the fight to beat back those annoying robocalls is here. As of today, every major voice provider in the US, including phone companies AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and cable provider Comcast, will need to implement a technology called Stir/Shaken designed to curb the tide of spam calls.

Hate robocalls? You'll love what's coming today

grsthegreat · Jun 30, 2021

we will see. it sure hasnt helped using do not call list

rekees4300 · Jun 30, 2021

grsthegreat said:
we will see. it sure hasnt helped using do not call list

True, do-not-call lists have been useless for many years. Hopefully the new stir/shaken technology will be at least somewhat effective.

Thomas · Jun 30, 2021

It would nice if it happen,Iam betting robocallers will find loop hole.

Diggin It · Jun 30, 2021

Got this thing on my phone called Call Detector. The ones marked 'Blocked' are the ones that got through and I blocked. The ones marked 'Spam' are ones already reported by others and blocked silently. They don't ring, but they appear in the history and will go to VM if the spammer waits.

newbury · Jun 30, 2021

rekees4300 said:
Today 6/30/2021 could be the end of Robocalls!

A big deadline in the fight to beat back those annoying robocalls is here. As of today, every major voice provider in the US, including phone companies AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and cable provider Comcast, will need to implement a technology called Stir/Shaken designed to curb the tide of spam calls.

Hate robocalls? You'll love what's coming today

Man, I love it when the government artfully crafts acronyms for projects. I used to have to do that about this time of year.
One crafty senior scientist I worked with had even been known to work up projects with great acronyms and get funded for a year.

Jstpssng · Jun 30, 2021

They should just call it 007... or perhaps "Bond. James Bond."
I doubt it will work. Companies which will spoof local numbers, including those of the town office and the local police station- to say nothing about having "USGovernment" show up on your caller ID- really don't care about pesky little laws.

Tinhack · Jun 30, 2021

It's not working. I got one this morning.

In the past, they were about my auto warrantee expiring.
Today, it was about me paying too much for electric.

oosik · Jun 30, 2021

I get a few here on the computer. "Your Humpty-Dumpty anti-virus program is about to expire".

Truth be know - I've never had that brand of AV software. Easy come - easy go.

grsthegreat · Jun 30, 2021

I just got one telling me I have a warrant out for my arrest for identy fraud. My wife got the exact same call a few minutes later. How stupid do they think we are. I went and renabled call block on my phone. I only disabled it to get a call back from PayPal.

Jstpssng · Jun 30, 2021

grsthegreat said:
I just got one telling me I have a warrant out for my arrest for identy fraud. My wife got the exact same call a few minutes later. How stupid do they think we are. I went and renabled call block on my phone. I only disabled it to get a call back from PayPal.

I got the same a couple of months ago but am still waiting for them to come get me. Maybe we can share the same jail cell, and compare tractor tales.

Whidbey · Jul 1, 2021

How has your life changed since you became a fugitive? lol

Frankenkubota · Jul 1, 2021

Like many folks, i DO NOT answer the calls if i don't know the caller. That's why they invented voice mail and texting.

There is a powerful urge to answer the phone that lives in most of us, the urge to communicate, the fear of missing something or being left out.

On the little news clip announcing the new program they showed a 30 something women starring at her phone, in emotional distress, wanting to answer but knowing she shouldn't.

I repeat myself when i say, advertising people and lawyers know the truth about being human, like we all do except, they know how and are willing to leverage that knowledge.

MoKelly · Jul 1, 2021

Got a call yesterday from an unknown number. Did not answer.

But - a voice mail was left.

The voicemail was in Chinese.

Maybe I’m in trouble in China!

MoKelly

newbury · Jul 1, 2021

My lovely wife used to be paranoid about missing a phone call. For about 33 of our 37 or so years together. She'd make every effort possible to answer the phone when it rang.
I'd let it ring and go to voice mail. Drove her nuts.
Finally she's been weaned off that.
If Stir/Shaken works - GREAT!!!
But I'm not expecting it to.

the old grind · Jul 1, 2021

Uh, the do not call list was never anything but a list of names/numbers, not an agency of geeks chasing rainbows on our tax dollars. There will always be unknown unknowns.

jjp8182 · Jul 1, 2021

Jstpssng said:
They should just call it 007... or perhaps "Bond. James Bond."
I doubt it will work. Companies which will spoof local numbers, including those of the town office and the local police station- to say nothing about having "USGovernment" show up on your caller ID- really don't care about pesky little laws.

What's really entertaining is when those scammers pretending to be with the US Government or even a local law enforcement office call a number used by the US government or the law enforcement agency they're attempting to impersonate.

jjp8182 · Jul 1, 2021

the old grind said:
Uh, the do not call list was never anything but a list of names/numbers, not an agency of geeks chasing rainbows on our tax dollars. There will always be unknown unknowns.

best I've heard was a spam caller who flat out admitted the "do-not-call" list was where they got the numbers they were calling

dadiehl · Jul 1, 2021

So while I am reading this thread I get a call from Denver Co. I am in Pennsylvania so I dumped it. As it turns out my upcoming back surgery here in Pa. is going to be monitored by some company based in Colorado. They wanted to chat about it. You can’t win.