Robocalls have become an unfortunately common part of daily life in America. Everyone knows how it works: A phone number, often somewhat similar to your own, calls you and offers some kind of health insurance or student loan scam.
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Americans may get around 2.4 billion robocalls a month, so the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just endowed phone companies with a new weapon.
On Thursday, the FCC announced that phone companies — like Sprint and AT&T — can now proactively block certain phone numbers before a robocall can even happen.
According to the FCC, technological innovations allow robocallers to easily impersonate phone numbers that don’t actually dial out, such as from the IRS, while hiding the true caller’s identity. These intrusive efforts are an enormous frustration to Americans: The FCC says it receives 200,000 complaints about robocalls every month — making it the FCC’s top consumer complaint. Read more…
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