Scam texts remain a significant problem for U.S. cell phone users. The FCC has the tools to identify the platforms that transmit the scam texts, and it should create incentives to encourage those platforms to stop sending scam texts.
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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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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Reply comments applaud the FCC for its response to carrier vulnerabilities leading to SIM swap and port-out fraud.
This letter requests the FCC--again--to require an automated opt-out mechanism for all calls, including non-telemarketing calls to cell phones, that include a prerecorded voice.
These comments urge the FCC to explicitly prohibit the temporary rental of outward dialing telephone numbers to robocallers, to eliminate this method of evading caller ID requirements.
