Thanks for the inside perspective.
Thanks for the inside perspective.
Everything is built to address that weakness - think DKIM, SPF, etc, plus STIR/SHAKEN, to say nothing of IP or ASN filtering, but they feel like bandaids on a very difficult problem. What you end up with are basically default-deny except for a personally curated trust set ("only accept calls from my contacts", "everything goes in spam unless I have previously corresponded with the sender"), etc.
One last robocall story. AT&T sat on their hands for years until consumer groups embarrassed the then-CEO enough to do something about it. There was a memorable interview in the Dallas Morning News where they called him on it instead of lobbing him softballs and I suspect that the embarrassment finally got through.