{"id":20058,"date":"2026-07-12T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=20058"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:38:14","slug":"ag-labrador-pushes-federal-government-to-further-crackdown-on-illegal-robocalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/ag-labrador-pushes-federal-government-to-further-crackdown-on-illegal-robocalls\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Labrador Pushes Federal Government to Further Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BOISE, ID<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador\u00a0and\u00a048\u00a0other\u00a0attorneys general\u00a0today called on\u00a0the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to\u00a0strengthen\u00a0rules that would\u00a0cut off\u00a0scammers\u2019\u00a0access to\u00a0legitimate\u00a0telephone numbers. Without that access, scammers can\u2019t use real numbers\u00a0to\u00a0deceive and\u00a0scam\u00a0Americans. The\u00a0Anti-Robocall\u00a0Multistate\u00a0Litigation Task Force\u00a0asked the FCC<\/a>\u00a0to work on this issue in 2021,\u00a0and\u00a0members of this\u00a0coalition\u00a0are\u00a0now responding to the FCC\u2019s proposed rules. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIdahoans are tired of scammers swindling their families and flooding their phones with non-stop robocalls,\u201d <\/em><\/strong>said Attorney General Labrador.<\/em> \u201cMy Consumer Protection Division works daily to educate people on how to avoid scams, but we need to hold telecom providers accountable at the source for allowing that illegal traffic in the first place. I am urging the FCC <\/em><\/strong>strengthen<\/em><\/strong> it\u2019s rules to cut off scammers before they can target Idaho families.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Americans\u00a0received approximately 29.6 billion\u00a0scam\u00a0robocalls and texts and lost\u00a0nearly\u00a0$2 billion\u00a0to these\u00a0scams.\u00a0Scammers used to\u00a0primarily\u00a0illegally\u00a0\u201cspoof\u201d\u00a0other people\u2019s phone numbers\u00a0to make it look like a call was\u00a0coming from a legitimate\u00a0company or government agency.\u00a0But scammers can\u2019t easily do this\u00a0anymore after the federal government and state attorneys general\u00a0took action to cut\u00a0down on\u00a0illegal\u00a0spoofing. Now, scammers often\u00a0purchase\u00a0legitimate phone numbers and use them to make\u00a0robocalls. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most legitimate businesses use the same phone number for many years, scammers cycle through millions of brand new phone numbers, which helps them avoid detection by spam filters. In one North Carolina case, scammers made more than 17.3 million calls on a single day through one phone company \u2013 but they generally didn\u2019t use the same number more than twice to make those calls, which is a common tactic among scammers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the steps the FCC is already taking, the bipartisan attorneys general are asking the federal government to do more, including:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n