Here’s an idea for a new way for AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to make some quick cash. We all know you profit by selling banks of phone numbers to spammers. Fine. It sucks that you know who you’re selling to and want to visit this on your customers.
We remember when you tried to charge us for blocking those spam calls and selling us services to weed them out. That didn’t work out so well.
So, if you’re going to continue to sell banks of phone numbers to miscreants and criminals here’s an idea. Every time one of your users blocks a spam number, charge the owner of that number a fee. You already know who purchased the phone number, so it would be easy to discern who the assholes are and just how ripe they are for the plucking.
I’m actually surprised AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile haven’t thought of this sort of double dipping.
You’ve already turned blocking spammers into a never-ending video game. You should at least profit off of it.
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