FTC shuts down 4 major ROBO call centers

[kadee79]

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it shut down four separate robocall operations responsible for placing billions of illegal robocalls. The four organizations responsible for the calls agreed to settlements with the agency. Under those agreements, the companies will no longer be able to make robocalls or use automatic dialers to place calls, effectively barring them from the telemarketing business.



The four organizations involved in the FTC crackdown include:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ftc-shuts-down-four-major-robocall-operations/ar-BBVj1Ue?li=BBnb7Kz

[Tennesseer]

I log onto an Excel spreadsheet all the scam calls I get, the caller ID, the phone numbers, and date.  From reading the article, it sounds like one of the four, Higher Goals Marketing, has called me over 110 times during the past three years.

This particular caller always has a different caller ID and different area code and different first three numbers of the phone number.  But the last four numbers were always the same:  8992.  When my phone would ring and I saw the phone number calling, I did not bother picking it up if the phone number ended with 8992.

Hopefully Higher Goals Marketing is that caller and the calls stop.

[kadee79]

Not sure what has happened, but our land line is suddenly almost quiet while just last month I was getting any where from 10 to 50 calls per day.  We have an answering machine & once it picked up most of them hung up...except a couple that kept leaving messages.  Now I'm down to just 3-10 per day so far.  Maybe those will stop soon too once the word spreads that these are having to pay big fines.

[Value Buy]

Mar 28, 2019 10:39:59 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Not sure what has happened, but our land line is suddenly almost quiet while just last month I was getting any where from 10 to 50 calls per day.  We have an answering machine & once it picked up most of them hung up...except a couple that kept leaving messages.  Now I'm down to just 3-10 per day so far.  Maybe those will stop soon too once the word spreads that these are having to pay big fines.

I am surprised your number of robo calls have declined, but, we too, seem to have fewer calls the last couple of days.
I read the article, saw what they were fined which imo, was a joke for the small size it was, plus the three companies were a pittance in the total number of robo calls.

If our personal number of robo calls stay small, we can all thank President Trump since it happened on his watch, and MAGA one step at a time

[Tennesseer]

I took a healthy this morning.  I can thank trump since it happened on his watch, and MYSSA (Making My Shit Stink Again) one step at a time.