We appreciate the automatic call that comes to our cellphones to remind us about an appointment with a doctor’s office. But nobody likes the multiple calls about extended auto warranties, oceanfront property for sale in Oklahoma or any of the myriad maddening pitches we get on our cellular phones these days – usually hiding behind the mask of a local number, or even a number that seems familiar.
Enter the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force, a nationwide effort that’s being made to investigate and take legal action against companies who bring foreign robocalls into the United States. The coalition includes attorneys general from all 50 states.
The idea behind it is to try to reduce the nation’s plague of scam and annoying phone calls, which lead to nearly $30 billion stolen each year, according to the National Consumer Law Center.
More than 30 million robocalls are received by Americans each day, according to the NCLC. Yes, each day.
The efforts to crack down on scammers and robocalls isn’t new. In 2018, we urged the Federal Communications Commission and telephone companies to
target 2019 to reduce scam calls.
At that time, we noted that “the number of robocalls with a North Dakota 701 area code was 2.4 million in November. In Minnesota’s 218 area code, it was 5 million. Both of those call totals also have greatly increased in the past two years. It’s so bad that the CEO of YouMail.com, Alex…
