WASHINGTON—Responding to complaints of widespread telephone scammers, the Federal Communications Commission issued a statement Tuesday that claimed 87% of unknown-number calls come from a record company executive who heard your demo.
“While we take your complaints of nonstop, borderline harassing phone calls extremely seriously, our investigation concluded that only a small percentage of ‘spam likely’ calls are actually spam. The large majority are personal outreach from people like Rick Rubin, Jay-Z, or Jimmy Iovine who found your sad-looking tape under a pile of mail on their desks, popped it in, and slowly sat upright in their chairs until they found themselves dancing around their office.