From CNET: US regulators have launched a nationwide crackdown on companies inundating US consumers with billions of unwanted and illegal telemarketing robocalls.
The action, known as Operation Stop Scam Calls, was announced Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission and involves more than 100 federal and state law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as the attorneys general of all 50 states and Washington, DC.
In addition to telemarketers, the action will target so-called consent farms that provide your personal information to robocallers while falsely saying consumers agreed to receive the calls. The crackdown also targets Voice over Internet Protocol providers that facilitate illegal robocalls, which often originate outside the US.
"We are taking action against those who trick people into phony consent to receive these calls and those who make it easy and cheap to place these calls," Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement announcing the crackdown.
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