The automated calls, explains a press release (1) from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claim that a Walmart ...

"That it is devastating for the state's economy, not to mention all of the people who are losing, the average victim in North ...

The chain involved in making spam robocalls usually begins abroad, where malicious foreign actors place spam calls to smaller U.S.-based telecom carriers who are happy to receive their fees. Whether ...

Twenty phone companies may soon have all their voice calls blocked by US carriers because they didn’t submit real plans for preventing robocalls on their networks. The 20 carriers include a mix of ...

Robocalls are not just annoying: More than 40% of them are believed to be scams. Last year, Microsoft discovered that more than 60% of people across 16 countries, including the U.S., were targeted in ...

AT&T will provide a free robocall-blocking service to mobile customers. Well, sort of free. The free portion of the service will alert customers that a call is a suspected spam call, and from there ...

Banks want to robocall cellphones so they can notify you of a breach or fraud. — -- According to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, it’s illegal to robocall a mobile phone number without ...

It was the sort of robocall racket that makes life miserable for consumers. On the one hand there was Globex Telecom, a Canadian provider of internet-based phone service. On the other was an outfit ...

Robocall-blocking apps promise to rid your life of spoofed and spam phone calls. But are they as trustworthy as they claim to be? One security researcher said many of these apps can violate your ...

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