<story><title>Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/call-states-sue-telecom-company-billions-robocalls-99553597</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edgyquant</author><text>We have to start creating criminal penalties for this stuff.  We wouldn’t let someone go around knocking on doors, the same door everyday and sometimes multiple times, attempting to scam people.&lt;p&gt;At this point the phone system is unusable.  If my doctors office needs to call me they’re SOL because I’m not answering a number I don’t know.</text></comment>
<story><title>Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/call-states-sue-telecom-company-billions-robocalls-99553597</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>I average around 3 robocalls each weekday. They are annoying and it&amp;#x27;s made me set my phone to not ring when I&amp;#x27;m at work.&lt;p&gt;Do you do anything other than hang up when you get a robocall?&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I do answer a robocall I just ask them to hold on for a second while I get a pen and something to write on then I set the phone down and go back to work. They rarely stay on the line for more than 10 seconds and one Medicaid scammer calls often enough that he recognizes my voice and will tell me to fuck off and then hangs up immediately.</text></comment>