A comprehensive list of effective FCC actions to stop scam robocalls
The plague of scam robocall$
The scourge of scam robocalls is a national problem, and there is no end in sight. The reason for the billions of monthly scam calls comes down to simply economics — and it’s that scam robocalls are a cash cow for the big telco providers.
Bob Sullivan wrote that you can call every phone in Los Angeles for $1,000, which is why the economics of robocalling make life easy for scammers. Given that the average salary in India, where most scam robocalls originate, is under $5,000, low-skilled workers can quickly find themselves making more than surgeons.
Americans are being scammed out of their life savings due to these calls. Older adults find they have bought Medicare Advantage plans that no longer give them access to their doctors and pharmacy coverage. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Big telco wants you to believe that scam robocalls are the work of nefarious sophisticated criminal gangs that can’t be stopped. But in truth, it takes but an hour to eliminate most of these calls. The FCC & telecoms know robocalls can be stopped, but all they do is put in place weak controls and create many task forces to address the problem.
