FCC taking aim to curb growing number of scam robotexts, robocalls
Scam robotexts have surged, bilking consumers out of billions of dollars. FOX 26 Consumer Reporter Heather Sullivan has some Smart Sense on how experts are working to curb this spread.
HOUSTON – Is your phone getting flooded with robotext messages and calls? The FCC is taking action this week on some phone services still letting robocalls through, and on the growing problem of robotexts.
Textkiller expects scam robotexts are expected to swindle us all out of $28 billion this year.
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Phones are buzzing with a surge of scams from robotexts. Fake messages that look like they’re about, say, an Amazon delivery, bank payments, COVID-19 alerts, or even bogus school bus alerts.
“Click on this link to see if your kid’s bus will be late. OK, boom! Now they have access to your bank account log-in or something like that,” explained Matt Mizenko with robocall blocking software company RoboKiller. “It’s a huge problem, it’s a growing problem.”
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Robokiller reports spam texts have surged from one billion a month in June 2021, to 12 billion a month in June 2022. Now the FCC is starting to take action.
“The FCC has come out in the past week and said this is a big problem,” said Mizenko. “And now we’re going to go to the phone networks, and just like…
