The automated calls, explains a press release (1) from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claim that a Walmart ...

A nationwide robocall scam involving fake Walmart employees is pressuring Americans to share sensitive information, according to federal regulators and telecom security experts. Thanks to Jeff Bezos, ...

The chain involved in making spam robocalls usually begins abroad, where malicious foreign actors place spam calls to smaller U.S.-based telecom carriers who are happy to receive their fees. Whether ...

"That it is devastating for the state's economy, not to mention all of the people who are losing, the average victim in North ...

Twenty phone companies may soon have all their voice calls blocked by US carriers because they didn’t submit real plans for preventing robocalls on their networks. The 20 carriers include a mix of ...

Banks want to robocall cellphones so they can notify you of a breach or fraud. — -- According to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, it’s illegal to robocall a mobile phone number without ...

The political consultant who admitted to orchestrating a fake robocall impersonating President Biden ahead of New Hampshire's Democratic primary earlier this year has been indicted on 26 charges in ...

Robocalls are not just annoying: More than 40% of them are believed to be scams. Last year, Microsoft discovered that more than 60% of people across 16 countries, including the U.S., were targeted in ...

It was the sort of robocall racket that makes life miserable for consumers. On the one hand there was Globex Telecom, a Canadian provider of internet-based phone service. On the other was an outfit ...

Robocall-blocking apps promise to rid your life of spoofed and spam phone calls. But are they as trustworthy as they claim to be? One security researcher said many of these apps can violate your ...

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