Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.,...
Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced the Caller ID Scam Prevention Act (S-2787), Klobuchar said in a news release Monday (http://1.usa.gov/1uP8GqK). “Caller ID fraud is a growing problem that threatens the financial well-being of families and seniors,”…
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and the bill would “take important steps to broaden our efforts in the fight against caller ID fraud and ensure our laws are as sophisticated as the criminals using this scheme,” Klobuchar said in a statement. The legislation would tackle criminal tactics by “prohibiting foreigners from falsifying caller ID numbers when calling U.S. consumers and expanding the law to include text messages” and by covering “new internet-based VoIP services that enable callers to make outgoing-only calls from computers and tablets to mobile and landline phones,” the news release said. The legislation has been referred to the Commerce Committee.