Appeals court nixes some FCC rules on robocalls
This Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, file photo, shows a call log displayed via an AT&T app on a cellphone in Orlando, Fla.
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Beware of hurricane relief scams In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and …
In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is warning consumers to be on the lookout for scams. "Seeing or hearing about the devastation caused by a natural disaster evokes our sympathies and our desire to help those affected," Carr's office wrote in a news release Monday night.
Dish Network hit with $280M penalty for violating do-not-call rules
It is no secret that robocalls, the automated phone calls that always seem to interrupt dinner, are a growing problem in the U.S. YouMail, a developer of robocall-blocking software, said that customers received an estimated 2.4 billion robocalls per month in 2016. And this week, the Department of Justice cracked down on one of the most egregious offenders, slapping a $280 million fine on Dish Network.
Family from Edenhope in Victoria win $500,000 in the Lotto
Ready, set, SPEND: First Black Friday shoppers race through the doors as retailers prepare for a post-election spending boom 'I feel incredibly blessed and thankful': Ivanka Trump shares her own Thanksgiving message with husband Jared and the kids as Donald celebrates in Mar-a-Lago Has Team Trump soured on Mitt Romney? Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway joins in criticism of 2012 GOP nominee as grassroots supporters claim he would be a terrible Secretary of State Pick up! Family refused to answer the phone for FIVE DAYS because they thought it was a telemarketera but Lotto was calling to tell them they had won A family from Victoria who thought telemarketers were harassing them for five days have discovered it was actually Tatts trying to contact them after they won the lotto.
Phone scams make me nuts
In days of old, when our home phone numbers weren't sold, and phone scams were not yet invented, the phone wouldn't ring, unless it be family or friends, with this I was so contented. But alas, those days are long past gone.
Robocall ‘scourge’: How tech giants and the government plan to end it
A 25-year-old law has failed to put an end to pesky automated sales calls and scams, but now Google, Apple, and others are teaming up with the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt to curb the scourge. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler speaks at the FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington, D.C. on February 26, 2015.
Schumer pitches ‘ROBOCOP’ bill to drop hammer on auto-call pests
Phone companies must offer robocall-blocking technology to all customers as telemarketers continue to evade the Do Not Call registry, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday. The New York Democrat plans to introduce legislation in the Senate that would require telecom companies to let their clients block the annoying calls.