Delusion1111111 wrote:semi side note how SCARY is this
"Millions of US voters have reported receiving suspicious and misleading robocalls encouraging them to stay home on Tuesday to avoid long lines at the polls.
Voters in at least four states
including Michigan, California, New York, North Carolina, and Georgia have received calls encouraging to vote on Wednesday — when polls will be closed — instead of Tuesday. It appears the calls are a direct attempt at misinformation and voter suppression as they generally cut off after telling people to stay home, without any efforts to get money from victims.
The calls have apparently been detected around the US for at least the last several weeks, according to YouMail, a robocall blocking app. More than 10m phone numbers have received such calls, the company said.
“If you wanted to cause havoc in America for the elections, one way to do it is clearly robocalling,” YouMail CEO Alex Quilici told the Washington Post. “This whole thing is exposing [that] it can be very difficult to react quickly to a large calling volume campaign.”
These kinds of calls are particularly difficult to track, according to Jim Tyrrell of telecom networking firm Transaction Network Services. That’s because perpetrators “spoof” or mask their phone numbers as other numbers to make such calls. They often make hundreds of calls from each spoofed number before abandoning it. He said TNS detected a similar campaign in July, which was perhaps a test run for what we are seeing today."
somebody is going to prison for this
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