The fact that it was Siri (or similar,) speech synthesis and the *** at the end was time-smeared in delivery,reinforces that it's neither legitimately Apple calling, nor emanating from the sharpest tool in the shed. The fallout from that rarest of cases, the FCC prosecuting a high-level phone scammer, fining him $120M, revealed that the profusion of phone spam isn't happenstance. Each time Caller ID is displayed on your phone, there's a database lookup that yields a fee to the service provider fulfilling the lookup request, even if the call goes unanswered. That fee is a fraction of a cent, so it's only meaningful if millions of calls are generated. Our AT&T/DirecTV VoIP phone is unplugged, day and night, because the volume of these fraudulent calls is so epic, beyond the political campaigns, opinion surveys, and charity solicitations that are telegraphing the punch properly via legit caller ID, that we can't have the ringer on, much less pick up the phone. My work AT&T cell is even worse. If the FCC was worth its salt, the telcos would be forced to change a very broken system, from which they profit. Instead, FCC wants to monkey with Net neutrality, because their paymasters will it (fund it, to be precise.) US Gov't has the same M.O. as Facebook - you, my fellow citizen, are the product, and the contract and related transactions ceding your privacy, and control over expanding communication channels, has been inked - you (and i) lose
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