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FCC slaps $300M fine on “largest illegal robocall operation” it’s ever seen (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t recommend that. I did it once for the same reason and got just as many spam calls plus debt collectors trying to reach the person who had the number before me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I couldn't bring myself to anyway, I've got an "interesting" number (think like 420-6969 but not that) that I wouldn't want to give up....as if anyone cares about numbers anymore. But it was cool in high school!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's 531-8008 isn't it.