robocalls

Consumer Investigator Alina Machado explains the new technology phone carriers are now required to have to help protect all of us from those pesky robocalls.

Billions of robocalls are placed each year, and now new federal standards could assist in rooting them out. But consumer advocates say your phone carrier has to play ball for it to work.

A new requirement by the FCC on the big telephone companies is aiming to cut down on robocalls.

The COVID crisis has turned our lives upside down and some see it as an opportunity.  “We know that scammers follow the headlines,” Colleen Tressler with the Federal Trade Commission said.  Tressler explains consumers are easy targets in this pandemic.  “The agency has received more than 270,000 specific COVID related complaints, the fraud loses dollar wise associated with that...

Sasha Jones has the details on health experts’ warnings of vaccine scams that targets people’s personal information.

Two conservative operatives were charged Thursday with felonies in connection with false robocalls that aimed to dissuade residents in Detroit and other U.S. cities from voting by mail, Michigan’s attorney general announced.

We’ve all received one. Those annoying calls from telemarketers or robocallers.  Day or night, they’re either trying to sell you something or trying to get your personal information. While money may be a little tight for many during the pandemic, one side hustle is helping consumers turn those scam calls into cold, hard cash. “The reality is, you don’t...

Some consumers are using a “side hustle” to turn those spam calls into the money they need to help them deal with the financial impacts of the pandemic. NBC 6’s Alina Machado reports.

The U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers

Tired of getting robocalls? Here’s what you should do to take yourself off the registry.

President Donald Trump has signed an anti-robocalls law that is expected to help Americans deal with the torrent of unwanted calls promising lower interest rates or pretending to be the IRS. The new law gives authorities more enforcement powers and could speed up measures the industry is already taking to identify robocalls. It also bars phone companies from charging for...