Everybody hates them: those pesky no-name phone calls that arrive at all hours of the day or night to disrupt our lives with a sales pitch for some unwanted product or service.
Call blocking doesn’t seem to work because your number will just be handed over to the next line in a foreign phone bank designed to handle people like you. What to do?
“We will take this fight to all who assist or enable these scam calls,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . “If the telecom industry refuses to create and comply with reasonable regulations, then our task force will demand compliance.”So far, the task force has issued 20 civil investigative demands to 20 gateway providers and other entities accused of creating the majority of foreign robocall traffic.
More than 33 million scam robocalls are made to American phone numbers every day. These include phony Social Security Administration calls to seniors, operators pretending to be from the IRS to collect personal information, and scammers pretending to be from Amazon asking for credit card numbers, according to the National Consumer Law Center and Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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