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By: Elliott Hannon
August 23, 2019
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/major-u-s-phone-companies-agree-to-plan-to-combat-endless-robocalls.html
America’s biggest telecom providers announced Thursday they
would adopt new technology to save consumers from the barrage of
robocalls that these days routinely clog Americans’ phones. Last month
alone, Americans received an estimated 4.7 billion illegal spam calls. The agreement
between 12 of the country’s largest providers—including Verizon,
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint—and 51 state attorneys general commits
the companies to better call labeling and blocking at no extra charge,
in order to combat spammers who are able to make calls look like they’re
from a local number.
“Under the agreement, the 12 carriers have agreed to implement
call-blocking technology, make anti-robocall tools available for free
to consumers and deploy a new system that would label calls as real or
spam. Known by its acronym, STIR/SHAKEN, the technology takes aim at a
practice known as spoofing, where fraudsters mask their identities by
using phone numbers that resemble those that they’re trying to contact
in a bid to get victims to pick up and surrender their personal
information,” the Washington Post reports.
“This June, state and federal authorities announced 94 enforcement
actions against illegal robocallers that allegedly placed an estimated 1
billion robocalls to consumers, a move they said signaled their
heightened interest in combating such scams. Some of the calls sought to
deceive people into paying fees or surrendering their personal
information for fraudulent services, such as lowering their credit card
interest rates or providing help with health insurance.”
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