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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to data released Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), complaints about the obnoxious phone calls spiked ...

Scammers pretending to be Walmart employees are preying on consumers, according to the FCC. Here's what to watch out for.

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 ...

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 ...

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Robocall spam has surged to 85 billion calls globally with bank account, credit card and extortion being common scams, according to Hiya, a company that makes apps to fend off unwanted calls.