I wonder how long it will take for the goverment to start enforcing the do not call registry laws. What’s the threshold of annoyance before it’s worth spending taxpayer money to enforce?
The carriers could do something about it. I'd consider switching service to a carrier that demonstrated they block these kinds of calls. Just like a big part of gmail's popularity is how effectively they block spam.
T-Mobile blocks a lot of spam callers, but they do not seem to block these spoofed caller ID calls.
Thankfully these spoofed calls are so easy to spot that they aren't even a real annoyance to me.
They (Samsung) appear to have some kind of crowdsourced database of spam callers in the default phone app (there is an option built in to report). It works amazingly well and was a surprise when I got this phone, coming from a Nexus 4. It seems to work very well indeed.
I talked to someone who received such a call when he star-69'ed it.