The Spam Epidemic: How Digital Clutter is Undermining Communication & Consumer Trust – 2/24/2025 Weekly Mortgage Update segment

The Spam Epidemic: How Digital Clutter is Undermining Communication & Consumer Trust – 2/24/2025 Weekly Mortgage Update segment

[David] Marc, we’ve got to get your rant.

[Marc] Okay. I’ll do the rant real quick because it’s going to tie right in to what Alan talked about. My rant this week is about our involving technical, involving digital and technology landscape and all this spam we’re getting. I spend a good bit of my time right now. deleting text, blocking phone numbers, unsubscribing to emails, and really, it’s all BS and its spam. Probably a good 60% of the text and emails I get are spam. I don’t know why I get so lucky to get all these things but, there are things telling me my iCloud storage is not big enough or it’s going to expire my prescriptions of my charge account number at CVS is set up wrong or Walgreens or it just goes on and on. It talks about warranties. I’ve never had never wanted. It’s talked about everything in the world, but what it’s doing, and I don’t think people realize this, it’s undermining the whole communication genre we have in this country. How can you really, if you’re a legitimate business, trying to get the word out to your customers, get them to buy your products, and learn about your services and how you can help them, who’s going to read that anymore if they spend their whole life deleting everything because they now think it’s spam coming in and I sat down and spent about an hour a day on my phone Cleaning that crap and I don’t know why I got so much of it So what I’m advocating in my conversations with a couple politicians that I mentioned earlier I’m advocating a new Bureau something that more formalized we have today in a time where we’re deleting all of them I want to have a bureau on communications or something that comes up and does a better job at screening these people. For people to get 500 phone numbers to dial you from different places all over the country, they have to go to a service, and they have to get assigned those numbers. Those things should be vetted properly to make sure it’s not a foreign government who come in trying to take over our country and make sure it’s something legit and there needs to be a conforming entity that approves it, a better business bureau, a government agency, or at least make them submit their corporation papers  and do background checks on the leaders of the corporation so you can check back to them and make sure it’s legitimate. But until we get a handle on this, it’s going to get worse and worse and there are people that are going to be hurt worse. The elderly are being scammed every day and USARP talks about it all the time, but now it’s getting to different folks because now we’ve got young kids that have mom and dad’s credit card getting on there to see something they want. That they told them they could buy for a cheap price. They get on there to buy it, but it’s not legit. They ordered it and never shows up because they ordered it from someplace in Timbuktu that never had an intent to give them a product. They just wanted to charge them 39 for it. And that’s happening all over the country. So I’m just hoping the political agenda for our politicians will be to protect the American public like it should and do something aggressive to attack this issue because we as individuals can’t solve it. We need a bigger entity and that’s what our government’s here for to protect the citizens of this country. And that’s my rant for today.

[David] And good rant. Yeah, I’m getting tired is all these deal. I’d say it spent too much time in order amount of time. Yes Mr. Kittles giving you a round of applause there. So good job!