Wrist slaps and paltry fines may not be what most of us were hoping for in retribution for billions of robocalls and countless scams.
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Busted scammer resorts to death threats
After the Canadian man told the crook he was a thief and a scammer, the tech support scammer said he had the man’s address and would send assassins.
Old-school landline phones to protect elderly from “it’s me” scammers
The new phones glow red when a call comes in from an unregistered number, to battle the “ore ore” (“it’s me, it’s me”) fraudsters who prey on Japanese elderly. 