<story><title>US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force</title><url>https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/nationwide-anti-robocall-litigation-task-force-created-to-fight-estimated-29-8b-in-scam-call/article_e3dfd458-129f-11ed-b714-7b059dbcf5e7.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonofhans</author><text>Some weeks ago I broke my iPhone and had it replaced. During the process I had to get re-authorized with Verizon. They tried to call my partner to get her permission, since she&amp;#x27;s the account owner. Of course she never picked up the phone, because it was from an unknown caller.&lt;p&gt;The irony is incredible: the literal phone company cannot use their own product to contact their own customers, because they have let that product become a cesspool of spam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s also funny about this is that I&amp;#x27;ve tried using Google&amp;#x27;s screening service and I&amp;#x27;ve literally never had an important caller answer the screening, they just go to voice mail instead. It&amp;#x27;s a weird situation because everyone knows that no one picks up calls from unknown numbers but everyone also expects you to pick up for them. It&amp;#x27;s kinda like when someone texts you &amp;quot;Hi&amp;quot; after exchanging numbers. No, text me &amp;quot;Hi it&amp;#x27;s so and so from xyz&amp;quot; because I can&amp;#x27;t differentiate you from spam without that. It&amp;#x27;s amazing to me that with such a universal problem that people don&amp;#x27;t adapt to the situation.</text></comment>
<story><title>US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force</title><url>https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/nationwide-anti-robocall-litigation-task-force-created-to-fight-estimated-29-8b-in-scam-call/article_e3dfd458-129f-11ed-b714-7b059dbcf5e7.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonofhans</author><text>Some weeks ago I broke my iPhone and had it replaced. During the process I had to get re-authorized with Verizon. They tried to call my partner to get her permission, since she&amp;#x27;s the account owner. Of course she never picked up the phone, because it was from an unknown caller.&lt;p&gt;The irony is incredible: the literal phone company cannot use their own product to contact their own customers, because they have let that product become a cesspool of spam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koheripbal</author><text>All the negative comments are focusing on the old-school providers, but it is worth noting that I get multiple daily spam calls on Google Fi service also.</text></comment>