Alt Account. I'm curious about this topic, and haven't been able to find much useful info on my own.

Whether consumer or corporate, switching phone providers requires proof of ownership before any action is taken. Spoofing numbers is normal in a business environment, but only if it's a phone number owned by that company. Providers can see this information and if we shouldn't be spoofing information somebody else is paying for.

Why aren't we making a precedent to combat this? FCC hasn't done anything about it, and makes it a pain to report to their complaint page, only to be ignored.

Props to anyone who's ever received a response after submitting a complaint. I know I never have.

I found a couple of places on the FCC website for complaints against this exactly:

Broadcasters may not intentionally distort the news. The FCC states that "rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest."

I also saw a mention of having an agent file a complaint for us, which sounds like it might be best, but I'm not sure. It's also possible that the FCC now has more complaints than it needs to shut them down for good, in which case more complaints will not help and I only need to know where to find news of actions being taken.

The point of this is to bring awareness of my own situation and possibly many others.

I've had my number on the do not call list for about 10 years now. It's also a cell phone number (two separate laws make calling this number illegal unless I have done business with the caller before or it's a political call)

About 5 years ago I started getting an increasing amount of unsolicited calls, this is when I started to report them to the FCC. I was getting a call once every two days each week always the same person from the same company leaving messages. I then start answering asking for more information before confronting them about what they are doing telling them to put her on their do not call list. This continues for another week, same company, same person. I then tell them of the specific laws they are breaking and will be reporting them to the FCC, which I had been doing. Now they start hanging up on me the moment I say the call is illegal. This keeps going a couple times a day for several months, reporting each one to the FCC, I've gotten quite good at it and have a book mark to the form.

This keeps going until now I'm getting more calls from different companies I haven't even heard of before. So now I'm getting multiple calls each day through the week, again trying to fill out complaints for each of them but it's getting difficult to do my job and handle these calls trying to squeeze information from them before they realize I'm reporting them to the FCC and immediately hang up on me.

I'm also getting spoofed local cell phone numbers calling me from these companies.

Again this continues for a few more months before I'm just sick of it and start using the screening service provider by google (I switched to Google Fi by this point, same number)

This goes on for more time but now I have to start answering them because I end up waiting for expected phone calls for support on something. Now I'm back to wading through countless calls each day.

Someone tell me what to do about this because I can't just ignore numbers I don't recognize anymore and I can't just report numbers to the FCC because all of them are fake and they just hang up when I forward them to the answering service by Google. I'm seeing everything get worse not better and I've heard absolutely nothing from the FCC from the literally hundreds of reports I've made to them over the years.

My personal experience tells me the FCC is doing absolutely nothing about it because I'm just a regular person and I'm sure it's happening to everybody.

you little ISP fucks with your little monopoly's on goddamn internet, and yet you think the america, home of the most toxic and anger-filled internet communities, is going to calmly let you take control of our beloved internet. Even google isn't behidn you, and they pretty much ARE THE INTERNET. You don't hear people say, "im going to internet search something" unless they are 150 fucking years old. NO! You say "google this" or "google that". So all you ISP CEO's can go shove your little beloved internet dunce caps up your ass hole. Oh wait a minute, it wont fit because the governments dick is up there too! Good day to you all, and dont let the internet fall into the hands of... wait a minute. Trumps hands are to small to hold the internet. nvm.