NEW YORK, New York -- Phone companies will have greater authority to block unwanted calls from reaching customers as regulators adopted new rules to combat automated messages known as robocalls. Rules ...
Fake charity appeals or IRS tax delinquency notices. Tricks that tempt you to call an overseas hotline — and rack up expensive charges. By one estimate, Americans lost more than $10 billion thanks to ...
Billions of robocalls are vexing Americans - and it's not slowing down. Many of the unsolicited calls are from scammers pretending to be tax collectors, charities, or salespeople. Short of throwing ...
Robocalls are on the rise. Here’s how to activate a new iOS 26 feature that helps you avoid them without missing important calls. Despite laws meant to regulate robocalls by the Federal Communications ...
Hawaii State Deputy Attorney General Christopher Leong joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss why some robo calls and texts are actually legitimate and even helpful, how to avoid ...
after ring after ring. We're being bombarded by robocalls. Nationwide data from the call protection app YouMail shows we got 4.7 billion of them just in January. Phone companies, especially the ...
WASHINGTON -- Jeri Vargas put her elderly mother on the "Do Not Call" list years ago. So why is the 88-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease still getting several recorded phone calls a day pitching ...
Robocalls continue to plague us, with 4.7 billion recorded in January alone, according to the call protection app YouMail.A new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group grades 24 phone ...