The FCC is trying to stop annoying auto warranty spam calls
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#61795)
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking new steps to try and stop annoying auto warranty spam calls. If you feel like you get a lot of them, you're not alone: the FCC thinks that more than 8 billion of those spam calls, which the agency says could be illegal, have been generated by just a few entities since at least 2018.
The FCC believes the calls have been generated from an operation" consisting of Roy Cox, Jr., Aaron Michael Jones, their Sumco Panama companies, and international associates," according to an FCC press release. The FCC has told some carriers to cease and desist carrying the calls and ordered all networks to be on the lookout for this traffic."
The agency has also opened a formal case to investigate the...