{"id":18444,"date":"2025-04-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=18444"},"modified":"2025-04-12T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T03:18:36","slug":"attorney-general-labrador-warns-phone-providers-regarding-unlawful-robocall-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/attorney-general-labrador-warns-phone-providers-regarding-unlawful-robocall-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Labrador Warns Phone Providers Regarding Unlawful Robocall Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[BOISE]<\/strong> \u2013 Today, Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador and the 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force notified nine voice service providers that they may be violating state and federal laws by continuing to route allegedly unlawful robocalls across their networks. These warning letters include information about the task force\u2019s investigation and analysis of each provider\u2019s illegal and\/or suspicious robocall traffic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will go after network providers that continue to allow illegal robocalls to plague Idaho consumers,\u201d said Attorney General Labrador. \u201cMy Consumer Protection Division regularly hears from Idahoans who receive scam jury duty, Medicare cancellation, and utility shut-off calls, just to name a few. If bad actors continue to disregard the law, we will hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the traced scams included government and financial imposters and impersonations, Social Security imposters, Amazon suspicious charges, credit card interest rate reductions, Medicare scams, Chinese package delivery scams, cable discount scams, utility disconnect scams, COVID financial relief, and student loan forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to sending these warning notices demanding that these companies stop transmitting illegal robocalls, the task force has also shared its concerns about providers with its federal law enforcement partners, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The task force sent warning letters to the following companies:&nbsp;Global Net Holdings, All Access Telecom, Lingo Telecom, NGL Communications, Range, RSCom Ltd., Telcast Network, ThinQ Technologies, and Telcentris (Voxox).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copies of the warning letters are available <a href=\"https:\/\/ncdoj.gov\/protecting-consumers\/telephones-telemarketing\/fighting-robocalls\/warning-notices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[BOISE] \u2013 Today, Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador and the 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force notified nine voice service providers that they may be violating state and federal laws by continuing to route allegedly unlawful robocalls across their networks. These warning letters include information about the task force\u2019s investigation and analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[824,253],"class_list":["post-18444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-press-release","tag-raul-labrador","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18446,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions\/18446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}