- The carriers know, for a fact, that these are spam calls.
- The spammers know that the carriers know this as well.
- The payout on a successful scam is large
- Because of the above the scammers are willing to pay VERY large sums to the carriers
- The carriers are willing to take the scammers money
Nothing is surprising to me about this except the last point.
Seems like "allowing people to pee in your pool, for a price" is very short term thinking.
That being said, maybe it's like that old SNL parody ad [0]: "We're the phone company and we don't care. Why? Because we don't have to."
(for the younger folks, Bell Telephone was a monopoly back then. That's less true now but true enough for the economics to kick in for them)
0 - https://vimeo.com/355556831
- The carriers know, for a fact, that these are spam calls.
- The spammers know that the carriers know this as well.
- The payout on a successful scam is large
- Because of the above the scammers are willing to pay VERY large sums to the carriers
- The carriers are willing to take the scammers money
Nothing is surprising to me about this except the last point.
Seems like "allowing people to pee in your pool, for a price" is very short term thinking.
That being said, maybe it's like that old SNL parody ad [0]: "We're the phone company and we don't care. Why? Because we don't have to."
(for the younger folks, Bell Telephone was a monopoly back then. That's less true now but true enough for the economics to kick in for them)
0 - https://vimeo.com/355556831