My normal test for this is to register a new domain name and leave my whois info public.

Over the span of 1-2 weeks I will usually get 50-100 calls from people with a certain accent asking for a mispronunciation of my name and if I need a website developed. Then I forward them over to my spam recording line.

I registered a handful of new domains this week, and I've had less than 5 calls so far.

-A

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:13 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

On 10/21/21 10:57 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> The multi-million dollar fines announced with great fanfaire by the
> Federal Communication Commission are almost never collected. The FCC
> doesn't have enforcement authority to collect fines. The FCC usually
> withholds license renewals until penalties are paid. If the violator
> doesn't have any FCC licenses (or doesn't care), the FCC is powerless.
>
> The FCC refers uncollected penalties to the Department of Justice. In
> the past, DOJ didn't prioritize uncollected penalties and most fines
> were never enforced.
>
>
> The Department of Justice Files Suit to Recover $9.9 Million
> Forfeiture Penalty for Nearly 5,000 Illegally Spoofed Robocalls
>
> https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-suit-recover-forfeiture-penalty-nearly-5000-illegally-spoofed
>

So has any of the STIR/SHAKEN stuff that was mandated made any
difference on the ground yet? I assume this is different than what you
posted about though.

Mike