Schatz Urges FCC Action on Robotexts
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said the FCC is on the right track in targeting robotext scams, the focus of a recent NPRM (see 2212120029). “Robotexts are a particularly dangerous avenue for scams and fraud, costing the American people more than…
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$131 million in 2021 alone,” Schatz said in a letter to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, posted Wednesday in docket 21-402. “The FCC must do everything in its power to protect the public from robotext scams,” he said. The proposals in the NPRM “are the types of steps we need in continuing to battle robotext scams,” Schatz said: “By building on your work countering robocalls, you can ensure that no one ever receives texts from numbers that are invalid, unallocated, unused, or on a Do-Not-Originate (DNO) list. Texts from these numbers are surely illegal or unwanted, and it makes sense that mobile wireless carriers should block them. Similarly, you can close the door to scammers spoofing legitimate numbers by ensuring robust ID authentication for text messages, similar to the protocol used for phone calls.”