Her investigation took her deep into the little known world of "data brokers" where personal data is legally sold for profit, ...
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced Friday a series of legal actions to combat unlawful robocalls plaguing the state’s residents. Speaking at a press conference, Stein said his office ...
Stein also issued two civil investigative demands into companies possibly making robocalls and robotexts. This includes phone company Articul8 which, according to the attorney general's office, ...
We are counting down the days until the election, and right now, it may seem like we can't get away from the constant ...
If you get 10 phone calls in one day, chances are at least a few are spam or robocalls. Here's why it happens even if you're ...
Despite holding that cellphone users are not “categorically excluded” from the TCPA, a New York federal court granted a defendant’s motion to ...
With the data as gathered from 1,000 Americans, there was a 7 percent increase in robocalls year over year from 2022 to 2023 from 49 billion to 53 billion robocalls. So far there have been 34.3 ...
Spam calls are one of a few things Americans from every walk of life can agree are an annoyance. A company that reviews and ...
While you can try to stop these mass spam calls from hitting your phone by signing up for the FCC's Do Not Call registry, that's no guarantee that spammers won't just call you anyway ...
The sophistication of these calls ranges from the crude to the convincing. At the lower end, an apparently automated ...
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched a two-tiered system to detect and block incoming scam and spam calls from international numbers. In the first phase, telecom service providers ...
Change is in the air; mortgage professionals are nearing the end of their efforts to stop the relentless phone calls from ...