Florida AG Ashley Moody calls on FCC to provide more protections against robocalls

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody continues her campaign to protect Floridians as well as all Americans from intrusive robocalls.

On Monday, Moody called on the Federal Communications Commission to require telephone providers to implement stronger measures that prevent illegal and fraudulent robocalls from inundating Americans.

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“I am joining attorneys general from across the nation urging the FCC to strengthen federal rules to ensure gateway providers are doing everything they can to protect Americans from unlawful robocalls,” Moody said.

Fifty other attorneys general joined Moody in her reply to the FCC in support of the proposed rule changes.

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According to a news release, illegal robocalls cost consumers, law enforcement and the telecom industry approximately $13.5 billion every year.

The FCC recently required the phone companies that let these calls onto the U.S. telephone network to do more to prevent these calls and is proposing expanding many of these rules to the few phone companies that are exclusively responsible for routing fraudulent and illegal calls across the U.S. phone network.

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Many of these calls originate from scam actors overseas who spoof American-based phone numbers.

Monday’s letter from 51 attorneys general supports the FCC’s proposal to extend the implementation of STIR/SHAKEN, a caller ID authentication technology that helps prevent spoofed calls, to all “intermediate” phone providers in the U.S.

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To view a copy of the letter, see below:

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