Silversmith45
Elite Member
I have been writing a western about the Civil War period. I have tried to use language like they did back the but the spell checker on my computer is always trying to change it into proper English.
A year ago i purchased a new phone. Had to get a new number and five days a week i get texts claiming that i am eligible for a dollar amount in a loan. The spelling and poor grammar is atrocious.
I wonder what all the previous owner of the number was into.
When i was much younger i took pride in my ability to spell. I could always tell if i spelled a word incorrectly Today i have trouble spelling. .
Some of the misspelling may be an attempt to get around spam filters. Of course, it could be that the spammer is just stupid, and those are not mutually exclusive conditions.
Your texter may have been offered a couple of options: 1.) work for a living, or 2.) answer this get rich quick scheme in the local supermarket classifieds. Their laziness excluded option 1, and their stupidity failed to exclude option 2, which only works if they can find a bunch of idiots at least as stupid as themselves.
One thing to point out (phone wise, not text at this point), is that phone companies are supposed to be SHAKEN/STIR compliant, but while my company says they are, they are not required to (at least at this point) filter out calls from callers who are not compliant. That may be coming, though. I'm still getting calls from "Card Services", people who want me to join in on a malpractice/product liability lawsuit, and auto warranties (I don't drive; never have).
Sorry to ramble, and apologies to any actual marketers who are offended by my message. Unfortunately, my exposure lately to "marketers" is indistinguishable from "liars".
-- Tom
I have always had my cell phone registered on the National Do Not Call Registry for telemarketing & spammers, and, to the best of my knowledge, I have never received a spam/telemarketing call. It's free, simple, and takes about 30 seconds to do: https://www.donotcall.gov/
Anyhow, I wonder how the "SHAKEN/STIR" protocol distinguishes between knowing which calls to label as "Spam Risk" and which to label as "Telemarketer" (what is the difference ? )
I have always had my cell phone registered on the National Do Not Call Registry for telemarketing & spammers, and, to the best of my knowledge, I have never received a spam/telemarketing call. It's free, simple, and takes about 30 seconds to do: https://www.donotcall.gov/
SHAKEN/STIR is supposed to be using certificates to verify that the phone number sent in caller ID actually is under the control of the originating phone company. If I'm interpreting the last bulletin I saw correctly, 90% of the calls aren't yet validated.
I'm not sure how calls from your home phone actually originating from some other phone you legitimately control are handled.
At some point, either the calls need to be rejected, or at least flagged all of the time when then caller ID fails authentication. I would love to see phone companies fined out the wazoo when they allow forged calls from telemarketers in Lower Scumsuckerland access to their networks.
-- Tom
It doesn't. SHAKEN/STIR only validates that the caller actually owns that number. It is only supposed to prevent people who generate random numbers to call from to hide their identity. I don't know if it will prevent people from using a number they own, but is in fact not active.
-- Tom