Re: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you...
The trouble is that for every attempt to do something useful there is an ever greater number of total arseholes that exist for the sole purpose of conning people. It is a game of whack-a-mole that the criminals are always going to win.
Telephone providers appear to have no desire to stop the spoofing of caller ID.
They clearly know where the calls come from but will not block them.
The chances of these scroats being caught is very low.
Many of them are not even in the UK.
They continue to make vast amounts of money.
Where my mother lives in Surrey the majority of people in the area are older and they are hounded by tossers coming round in the vans wanting to:
Fix a roof:
Relay the drive
Clear the gutters.
Replace fencing
They are also getting to be smart and target houses that have had recent work claiming to be from the builder or whatever. One person in the road had a recently re-roofed porch stripped of it lead and a bit of crap felt put on.
The police don't have the resources to follow these up and invariably they are long gone by the time they respond. The only way to catch them is to have the police turn up when they are doing the "work". Unfortunately that just does not happen
Biting the hand that feeds IT
