Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and 48 other attorneys general are asking the FCC to strengthen rules that would cut off scammers’ access to legitimate telephone numbers.
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Consumers across the country need to be careful of who's calling. A nationwide robocall scam involving fake Walmart employees is pressuring Americans to share sensitive information, according to ...
LOS ANGELES — Answering the phone nowadays can be like playing Russian roulette — eventually, you’re going to answer a robocall, and that's a game nobody wants to play. Robocalls are the No. 1 ...
There's no magic solution for stopping illegal robocallers and other fraudsters. That's why the telecom industry is continually implementing additional ways to combat fraud to protect consumers and ...
Joseph Turrise had the same landline for 56 years — more than half a century. But it's now been silenced. Not because Turrise, an 82-year-old resident of Chicago, wanted it that way, but because the ...
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced she has joined other attorneys general to urge the Federal Communications ...
In a new report, consumer watchdog PIRG says robocalls are up 20 percent which means people are getting 420 million more calls each month. Experts say consumers should never provide personal ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new report, consumer watchdog PIRG says robocalls are up 20 percent, reaching a six-year high in 2025, which translates to ...
The FCC is trying to fix customer service by bringing call centers back to the U.S. The real threat: AI-driven scams that regulators can't touch. AI is lowering the cost of deception while increasing ...
IRVINE, Calif., June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. consumers received just over 4.1 billion robocalls in May 2026, according to the YouMail Robocall Index, the robocall protection app that tracks US ...
The FCC’s proposed robocall crackdown could force carriers to verify customer identities, raising privacy concerns over anonymous phone use. The Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with ...