State attorneys general from across the country announce new provisions to combat the ongoing scourge of robocalling.
State attorneys general across the country are joining the fight against the ongoing scourge of robocalling.
In conjunction with a dozen phone companies, attorneys general from all 50 states and Washington D.C. announced on Thursday new provisions to combat the issue. Among the policies the phone companies agreed to implement included call screening and call-blocking technology at no cost to their customers. The companies also agreed to provide the officials with additional information aimed at helping their offices investigate and take action against scam callers.“Robocalls are a scourge — at best, annoying, at worst, scamming people out of their hard-earned money,” North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Comcast , Bandwidth, CenturyLink, Charter, Consolidated, Frontier, US Cellular, and Windstream joined into the state attorneys general coalition of phone service providers. "The bad actors running these deceptive operations will soon have one call left to make: to their lawyers," New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, said in a statement."New Yorkers don’t want to be woken up by illegal robocalls, don’t want their dinner interrupted by scamming robocalls, and don’t even want one minute of their day disrupted by robocalls that only aim to swindle innocent victims, so we’re taking action to bring the number of unsolicited calls way down.
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