AND......... the phone scam / telemarkerters / fishing cloners have stepped it up

[Gman]

Got the Japanese one months ago. Anybody need a medically approved brace? Ping me and I'll give them your number when they call me in a few hours.

The 'no call registry' is the total joke I expect from government.

Remember when having an unlisted number kept you from getting extraneous calls? Now the robo-dialers just dial ALL the numbers.

The phone companies should be able to control ingress onto their networks from only approved sources. I think they'd rather sell you a subscription service to cleanup the mess they're allowing to happen while they're getting paid by those doing the dialing.