On Tue, 2022-10-04 at 08:05 -0600, Jawaid Bazyar wrote: > Phone spam pretty much always involves the knowledge and involvement > of the provider. There are no phone providers who don't know when one > of their customers are making millions of robocalls. > > International toll fraud also always involves the collusion of > corrupt small country telephone monopolies. > > So unlike email spam, where there are a million ways to send a > million emails a minute without someone being aware, phone spam is > definitively collisional. (Is that a word?) >
collusion: noun: secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others. Law: illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially between ostensible opponents in a lawsuit. Yup. Having worked for a small VoIP provider, your comment is exactly on point.
