[AdrianEGraphene]

The product isn't necessarily true (mobile -> landline push), but the profit-seeking is certainly expected, as it is for all businesses. While the amount of minutes & attentions that are generated from spam calls helps the telcos, because they get paid either way... that doesn't mean they're negligent. They just don't have the right tools to police this since they're common carriers. Things are changing little by little and with upcoming changes in telco infrastructure, I expect Q4 this year to show a strong signal of what the future holds.

[rrauenza]

Can they not just monitor the statistics from an incoming <insert phone system collective noun here> and notice that they're randomly calling millions of numbers per small unit of time and swapping their caller id for every one of them... and then just block them?

Is there a legal reason they can't? Is it a liability reason?

What's really getting my goat the last year is the scam center pretending to be Comcast / XFinity / AT&T / Spectrum offering to lower my bills. They constantly rotate through the four companies and often also have my name, stolen from one of those provider's databases.

I've stopped calling them scammers on the phone and call them thieves, or "chor" in Hindi. Often they hangup immediately, but 1 in 10 or so get sheepish and embarrassed.