Nation’s Largest Financial Institutions, Tech Companies Warn of Rising Fraud Targeting Consumers
Task force aims to solve America’s $158 billion fraud problem.
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FTC Expands Telemarketing Rules to Cover Technical Support Scams
Technical Support Scams Cost Older Consumers $175M in Losses Last Year
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Communications Daily: Disagreements Continue on Need for Tougher SIM Swapping Rules
Originally appearing in Communications Daily on Feb. 15, 2024, Howard Buskirk quotes Margot Saunders, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, in coverage of a push for the Federal Communications Commission to take a more aggressive stance against SIM swapping and port-out fraud. The FCC must clarify that carriers, “the only parties in these…
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FCC Must Increase Accountability in Fight to End SIM Swap and Port-Out Fraud
Reply comments filed yesterday with the FCC call for substantially stronger rules to protect cell phone users from SIM swap and port-out frauds.
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Stronger Rules Will Stop Criminal Robocallers from Accessing Americans’ Wallets, Says NCLC Senior Attorney in Senate Testimony
To Date, FCC Efforts Have Failed to Achieve a Meaningful Reduction in Unwanted and Illegal Calls and Texts
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USA Today: 'Stop scam calls:' What the federal government is doing to halt illegal robocalls
Originally appearing in USA Today on July 19, 2023, Terry Collins discusses Operation Stop Scam Calls, a new campaign intended to make it harder for fraudsters accused of scamming millions of Americans in robocall and telemarketing schemes to contact everyday Americans. The article references NCLC and the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s (EPIC) report, Scam Robocalls:…
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Consumers' Checkbook: Margot Saunders Discusses a New FCC Rule that Requires Phone Companies to Block Some Robotexts
Airing on May 11, 2023, Herb Weisbaum invites Margot Saunders to discuss new Federal Communication Commission rules and what more can be done to protect consumers from unwanted and illegal robocalls and texts. “The FCC needs to identify a way of regulating those texts and limiting the texts that contain those links that have not…
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FCC Must Do More to Block Unlawful Text Messages
Advocacy groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take more aggressive action to block unlawful text messages.
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Broadband Breakfast: Margot Saunders Debates the Best Methods of Stopping Illegal Calls with Industry Representatives
On Mar. 22, 2023, Margot Saunders joined a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event to discuss how the current industry and regulatory fight against illegal robocall traffic is failing to make a meaningful dent in the problem. “Robocalls have completely undermined the value of the U.S. telephone system. The system is losing value and that’s hurting…
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More than a Dozen Consumer and Privacy Groups Urge FCC to Stop Unwanted Text Messages
Advocates say Commission must act to preserve and expand protections against unwanted, dangerous, or illegal text messages WASHINGTON – The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), along with sixteen other national and state consumer and privacy groups representing a broad swath of individual telephone subscribers across the United States,…
