Last week I answered the phone, in 10 seconds I'd been scammed!!!

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44. Wouldn't it be nice if Congress could do something about this?

Maybe work with telephone and cellular phone providers to quickly track down these operators? Why is the technology so freely available in the first place for scammers to mask who they are? Why can't consumers set their phones - easily and for free - to detect and reject any calls from masked numbers? If the technology exists for scammers to disguise themselves, the technology surely exists for our phones to detect that cloaking. Lacking that, why not have an easily accessible switch to block calls from unknown or unfamiliar numbers?

Somebody's making buckets of money off these scams that waste people's time and incur all these bogus charges. Phone service providers can't be all that happy to deal with righteously irate customers. The private sector is failing the American people. Why is government powerless to protect us? Don't they tell us that's their number 1 priority? Where is Congress? Where is the President?