Over the past few years, spam calls have become an increasing and seemingly inescapable nuisance. In 2018 alone, a report found that the number of spam calls jumped by a whopping 325%. Compounding matters is that many of the scammers behind the plague of robocalls use numbers that look remarkably similar to a recipient’s own number, thus tricking unsuspecting users into answering the phone.
In an effort to alleviate this growing problem, the FTC recently got involved and issued significant fines while banning four specific companies responsible for a large volume of robocalls. All told, the four companies in question — a list which includes NetDotSolutions, Higher Goals Marketing, Veterans of America, and Pointbreak Media — were responsible for billions of illegal robocalls, some of which sought to coerce users to hand over money for fake charities.
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FTC slaps companies responsible for billions of robocalls with multi-million dollar fines originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 06:50:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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