Ofcom wants to crackdown on scam calls and texts

UK communications regulator Ofcom has proposed new regulation to stop scammers using fake phone numbers and making ‘spoof calls’.
Ofcom wants to introduce strengthened rules to fight number spoofing – calls which imitate the phone numbers of actual companies or organisations – and to stop scammers having access to their own phone numbers to perform other types of swindling.
As part of the new rules operators would be expected to block numbers that are spoofed. Apparently