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...

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.

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...