Few consumers have escaped the electronic sewage from telephone robocallers and marketer calls that violate our “do not call” registrations (DNCR). These malicious marketers waste consumer resources while riding upon automatic dialers and caller ID spoofing software. Those technologies help criminals flush high volumes of unsolicited calls onto innocent consumers. The calls waste consumers’ time, […]
Robocalls Still a Big Problem
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says if you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it’s a robocall. Robocalls are obnoxious and often are a prelude to fraud, yet they arrive every day and pester most of us. Robocalling is not like speeches in a public park where we […]
Robocalls – It Depends On Content, Not on How It’s Dialed
The few robocalls I get on my cellphone are fast-talker recordings on a political issue. I often retort even though they are not listening. I don’t get any public service warnings telling me of looming tornados, school snow days or Amber Alerts. I don’t get sales calls from companies I have no affiliation with. Somehow […]
