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What is a robocall? If you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it's a robocall. If the message is a sales call pitching a product or service, and you haven't given the company permission to call you, it's an illegal robocall. Many illegal robocalls are scams.

Jul 18, 2023 · The FTC also has a new educational webpage at ftc.gov/RobocallScams with examples of real illegal robocalls using familiar names, as well as steps people can take to avoid robocall scams. The FTC would like to thank its partners nationwide for providing consumer education outreach and support for Operation Stop Scam Calls, as well as USTelecom ...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged a telemarketing operation and its owners with making millions of illegal, unsolicited calls about educational programs to consumers who submitted their contact information to websites promising help with job searches, public benefits, and other unrelated programs.

If you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it's a robocall. If the recording is a sales message and you haven't given your written permission to get calls from the company on the other end, the call is illegal period. So when you get an illegal robocall, here's what to do. Hang up the phone.

Jul 17, 2023 · WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with 101 federal and state law enforcers, will announce “Operation Stop Scam Calls,” a joint-agency crackdown on telemarketers, lead generators, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers responsible for making or facilitating billions of illegal telemarketing calls.

Apr 10, 2023 · As the menace of unwanted illegal robocalls continues, U.S. consumers are bombarded by millions of these calls each month, both to their landlines and cell phones.

So the FTC put out the robocall challenge, and this was in response. They get over 200,000 complaints about robocalls every month. And so they saw this is a really huge problem, and one that they wanted the input of the technology community. And so they set up-- they crowd sourced-- and they set up this competition.

The Federal Trade Commission and its law enforcement partners today announced a major crackdown on illegal robocalls, including 94 actions targeting operations around the country that are responsible for more than one billion calls pitching a variety of products and services including credit card interest rate reduction services, money-making opportunities, and medical alert …

Nov 15, 2024 · Now in its 16 th year of publication, the FTC’s data book provides the most recent fiscal year information available on robocall complaints, the types of calls consumers reported to the FTC, and a complete state-by-state analysis of the data. According to this year’s edition, complaints unwanted calls about medical and prescription issues ...