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AT&T CEO Interrupted By a Robocall During a Live Interview (theverge.com)
At an Economic Club event in Washington, DC today, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was interrupted on stage by a robocall, pausing an interview in front of dozens of people and driving home that absolutely no one is safe from the spam epidemic. From a report: Over the past few months, regulators at the Federal Communications Commission have been feeling the pressure from lawmakers and consumers who are urging them to put an end to the relentless onslaught of robocalls people receive every day. Last year, consumers received over 26.3 billion of these scammy calls and the problem only appears to be getting worse. "I'm getting a robocall, too," Stephenson said during the Economic Club event, ultimately declining the call on his Apple Watch. "It's literally a robocall."
read TFS. It's his iStatusWatch. Nobody silences those. They don't ring. He just doesn't have the maturity to ignore it.
Yeah. Sure.
The very nature of robocalls is that they try to make themselves look like something else so you will answer them.
So he should not have known it was a robocall, thus faked. Thus BS, as I said before. Shenanigans!!!
Supposed to make you think something along the lines of, "This must be a really big problem if even the CEO of AT&T can't escape them. I guess there really is nothing they can do about them."
First law of people: People are generally stupid.