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    France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week

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    1. casualfrog68 on

      In the US, we have a list to be on to prevent these calls. Despite being on it, I still get 3-5 calls every day.

    4. happyscrappy on

      France has literally been trying to stop robocalls since the 1970s. They had laws that said that if an automated device made a call it had to be able to apologize in French to the recipient if the recipient said the call wasn’t wanted. This wasn’t even technologically realistic at the time so it just meant direct dialing modems were technically illegal in the country for a while.

      I would love to see results anywhere on this issue. But I don’t really expect any. Including in this case.

    5. gcerullo on

      The problem is that unsolicited telemarketing calls, better known as robocalls, are generated by computers that are outside the jurisdiction of the country, in this case France, trying to enforce the ban.

    6. jert3 on

      I don’t answer my phone if the number is not recognized anymore. Calls tappered off these days but this time last year I could get upwards of 5-6 spcam calls a day.

    7. pkosuda on

      For US people, the biggest preventative measure I’ve found to this shit is iPhone’s call screening option. Silence all unknown calls and have an answering machine ask them why they’re calling and who they are. Most of the bots hang up and the ones that don’t you just see later on that some random name called but never left a message.

      It’s a shame we have to resort to just silencing our phones nowadays. I used to pick up every call when I was applying for jobs but now I make even recruiters say who they are before I pick up (at which point once you’ve saved their number or labeled them you get notified of their calls).

    13. davinaz49 on

      We already have some stuff to counter this. Telemarketing stuff numbers start with a predefined list of digits so you can recognise them easily. 
      But not the first time we have laws to mitigate this. Never worked really well so far. Weight and sea…right ?

    18. its_all_one_electron on

      I see zero way for them to enforce this unless they invent a way for us to deliver an electric shock to the person on the other end

    19. CeCanpar on

      The Spanish Gov did the same a few months ago and nothing changed… hope the French are luckier

    20. BanChokingPorn on

      Be very careful at fairs, home/boat/auto shows. Carnivals. Large events. They almost always have a drawing. Usually unmanned. To win a car, a world cruise, or a lifetime gym membership. You fill in your info. However, on the back, in very very tiny font, are the rules where you agree to have your name removed from Do Not Contact lists. It’s a total scam. There is no drawing, and sometimes, the draw dates are from two or three years ago. Not even valid.

      So, who in the fuck plops these things down where massive crowds gather?

    21. navetzz on

      I’m French, I was spammed like crazy, and it stopped a few weeks ago. Might be related or not… We’ll see.

    22. TheWastelandWizard on

      Now every agreement you click yes to will also sign you up for Solicited Calls.

    23. on_ on

      In Europe it was a great mistake the liberalization of phone numbers. If I have a number in my name and the government knows that is mine, and I’m responsible for whatever happens. why companies are allowed to spoofs numbers? Phone numbers should be sacred like VAT.

    24. hamsternest on

      We have something like that for a couple of years here in Germany.

      I reported an unsolicited call and a couple of weeks later I got a mail form the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) and they said they shut them down.

      That was quite satisfying.

    27. hifidad on

      I would love to see if this does anything. If I disable my call blockers and my phones feature to silence unknown callers or automatically ask why they are calling, it’s like 10 calls a day even on a do not call list.

    31. SaurinF on

      Oooo, thats a good one. I used to do customer service for Verizon. One day they decide that since we were doing so well covering all the calls theyd add some more work.

      Get this, they decided that agents in stores like walmart, target, etc were checking the box opting customers out of marketing emails/contact without actually asking the customer when signing up. So they had the brilliant solution of suddenly making an auto dialer that would call new customers that were marked as DO NOT CALL to ask if they wanted to be called and marketed to. So if someone answered or VM picked up on third try in three days it would suddenly beep and put us on a live call with no warning. Just had to take a wild guess if someone had said hello or if we were supposed to be leaving a message. I actually threatened to quit to get them to move me to another department. Insane.

    33. Ok-Drink-1328 on

      define “banning”…. if you mean “outlawing it” good luck with that!! if you mean “smashing their offices door down with SWAT and slamming em in REAL prison and call interpol on international ones and OBVIOUSLY force phone operators to filter this shit cos TRUST ME it’s DEFINITELY possible!!”…. maybe