Tag: robocall
Voice Spam Will Soon Be as Bad as Email Spam
Do not be surprised if customers start abandoning the use of phone numbers to exclusively rely on OTT voice services instead.
American Bankers Association Shows Why US Robocall Strategy Will Never Work
You can fire Americans, hire replacements somewhere cheaper, and disguise where they are, but eventually somebody pays a price.
Learning from YouTubers Who Hack Scam Call Centers
Developers of a robocall blocking app brought together YouTube's leading scambaiters for a week. Imagine if teams like these investigated scam calls all year.
US and EU Regulators Sign Robocall Agreement, but Only the US Says It Covers Robocalls
More is revealed by the differences in press releases issued by BEREC and the FCC than by their smiles for the cameras.
14 Times Americans Were Told the Number of Robocalls Would Fall
The success of STIR/SHAKEN has lain just over the horizon for four years in a row.
US Records Worst Month for Robocalls Since Adoption of STIR/SHAKEN
The results on the graph would have been compared to the target if anybody had set a target.
Why Does the US Media Refuse to Tell the Full Truth about Robocaller Roy Cox Jr?
Authorities praised for finding a man who made 8bn illegal calls should also be criticized for the failure to punish him earlier.
Singapore Joins Nexus of Bilateral Telecoms Spam Agreements
A deal between Singapore and Australia sees the East Asian country align with a growing web of similar deals between Western nations.
Chief Target of New US Robocall Crackdown Is American Banned from Telemarketing in 2013
Roy Cox was never made to pay a USD1.1mn penalty for past violations but is now blamed for 3.5% of all US robocalls since 2018.
Calls with STIR/SHAKEN C-Attestation Almost 6 Times More Likely to Be Robocalls than Unsigned Calls
One billion bad calls were 'authenticated' during June by systems which were supposed to protect Americans from bad calls.
UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts
But they also want to weaken rules that currently require politicians be held to the same standard as marketeers.
What If China Created a Rival to the US STIR/SHAKEN Program?
The government of China has every reason to disrupt US ambitions by copying and improving upon US plans for verifying CLIs globally.
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