On April 7, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that a majority of states have joined into a partnership with the Commission to investigate unwanted robocalls and caller ID spoofing scams.
It is widely known that most of these consumer-harming scams originate from overseas, but the partnership will hopefully enhance investigations into illegal robocalls and spoofing – and help to significantly reduce them. According to the announcement, other states have been invited to participate in the partnership to investigate and combat bad robocalls and spoofing. Aside from this public sector initiative, my blog post from March 2 highlighted private sector efforts of the Industry Traceback Group (ITG) to protect consumers from these hazards.
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