Then when it gets reported the authorities can just look up the owner of that number and arrest them. Vs overseas based operations that are difficult to follow up on.
replyThe authorities already don’t have much leverage over “domestic” spam call centers that are actually located overseas but somehow always manage to acquire domestic numbers to call from.
replyA couple of years ago Australia had a big reform of the laws where sms providers / voip companies had to actually verify their users owned the numbers they send from. Anecdotally before then I was getting a scam text message every day, now I haven’t had one in years.
replyPhone numbers in Australia are also all tied to ID. If there is a will to fix the system, it can be done.
Good now we only need to get 100% of sovereign nations and rogue states to adopt uniform global treaties
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