51 AGs Warn 4 Carriers of Transmitting Illegal Robocalls
Attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia warned four companies Tuesday that they have been transmitting suspected illegal robocall traffic on their networks. KWK Communications, Inbounc Communications, AKA Management and CallVox received letters from the bipartisan…
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Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, informing them that it shared the findings of its investigation with the FCC Enforcement Bureau. An investigation into KWK found that it received at least 129 traceback notices from the industry traceback group between 2020 and 2022 regarding calls associated with the federal government, auto warranty and utilities scams. Inbound was estimated to have "routed more than $28.4 million DirecTV and cable discount scam robocalls in a single month in 2022." AKA allegedly routed about 12.1 million Amazon and Apple-related robocalls in a single month. CallVox received more than 47 traceback notices between 2020 and 2022 concerning unlawful or suspicious robocalls to people who were registered on the do not call list. “These phone companies let robocallers on our networks, and they plague North Carolinians with illegal scam calls,” said the state's attorney general, Josh Stein (D), who co-chairs the task force. “These companies need to act now to stop these robocalls from inundating people’s phones.”