, the complaints that they have received about scam text messages have gone up from 3,300 complaints in 2015 to 18,900 in the last year. Now, the FCC is making phone companies crack down on these scammers.
Complaints about scam text messages have increased from 3,300 complaints in 2015 to 18,900 in the last year, according to the FTC.service providers that will make them have to block any robotext messages the agency says areThese messages include texts from numbers like unused and invalid numbers, as well as those that government agencies identify as not for texting. This will specifically target spam text messages which have been a growing concern.
The new rules will also require cell phone companies to establish a point of contact for people who believe their text message was incorrectly blocked. The FCC is still searching for other ways to block these spam messages. The regulatory agency says they want to use authentication measures and expand the list of illegal texters to include numbers tied to entities that the FCC has previously cited asThey reportedly want to close the"lead generator loophole," which allows multiple marketers to take advantage of a single consent from a consumer to receive text messages and robocalls on their device.
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Cell phone companies make you pay for blocking texts or calls so they don’t have to do anything the government never follows through on these scammers anyways