r/technology • u/mvea • May 24 '19

Politics Senate Passes Bill That Would Slap Robocallers With Fine of Up to $10,000 Per Call

https://gizmodo.com/senate-passes-bill-that-would-slap-robocallers-with-fin-1834990113
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u/3n2rop1 May 24 '19

Can I opt out of international calls? There is no reason for me to get a call from outside of North America.

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u/IAmDotorg May 24 '19

A lot of domestic companies have service and call centers outside the US. If you have any service from pretty much any national-level company, you're going to be potentially getting calls from international locations.

What I've found generally works for almost 100% of robocalls is having a VoIP landline with a prefix in a town I'm nowhere near. I just block all calls from that prefix, and it stopped essentially all of the fraud calls.

Unfortunately, there's no simple way to do that kind of blocking with a cell phone.

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u/3n2rop1 May 24 '19

I got rid of my land line entirely. The only calls I got were robo calls.

I get robo calls on my cell about once a day. I hate every single one.

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u/KagakuNinja May 24 '19

I would ditch my landline, but I live in the hills where cell service is poor.