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Telcos make money off of scammer activity.
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colechristensen
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Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
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It's a vector for advertising.
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philipallstar
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But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats.
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