Probably the most important lesson from that $50k scam story is that thanks to decades of lax businesses being breached, scammers have most of our private data and use it to sound legitimate.
Also the cumulative cost of telcos not having reliable caller ID far outweighs the profits they made from skimping on it. Perhaps we should tax them accordingly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/17/scam-tips-columnist-50k/