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Originally Posted by Pres1939
I disagree that the Sheriff cannot help. Everyone of these I get, I forward to “askdoj@usdoj.gov”.
If we all bombard the DOJ and our State AG, hopefully, they will get tired of the messages and finally get off their duff and do something about it. We have a lot of smart IT people in this country. Put them to work to stop these scammers!!
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So, you think that the people in Government don't already know about the scammers, and sending messages to them will cause them to solve the problem? It is more likely that they will just use the messages as justification to increase their budget. But, in this case, the scammer was probably thousands of miles away from The Villages and the Sheriff has no jurisdiction outside of the county to do anything, even if he wanted to. The scammer may have not even been in the U.S.
I agree that we have a lot of good IT people. And, I think that the cell phone providers could easily stop the scammers by monitoring their phone usage and limiting the number of calls made from a single source. But, they will not do it because they are making money on the scammer calls. The Government has been saying for years that they are working to fix the problem, but, I think they are lying.