It appears that Michael Rathbun via mailop <m...@honet.com> said: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 02:44:35 +0100, Ángel via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> >wrote: > >>I wonder however if that's still the case for "professional" spammers, >>as I expect they would be able to buy phone numbers more easily and >>cheap than common users. > >What is this 'buy' of which you speak? Phone numbers are composed of digits, >all of which have been freely available for use since they were propounded by >Indians, Arabs, Romans... Unless you mean "phone numbers that are actually >routable from caller to called party" which is unnecessary in this context.
Last time I checked Gmail sends you an SMS with a code you need to provide to register a new account. Given the amount of spam I'm getting from Gmail, who knows how much it's slowing the spammers down. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
