For years, robocallers have swindled millions of dollars from American families and eroded public trust in the government agencies they impersonate.<\/p>\n
Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley recently demanded that the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) take necessary steps to protect American families from fraudulent Social Security-related robocall schemes that are victimizing tens of thousands of consumers.<\/p>\n
“These unsolicited robocalls are not just an inconvenience to consumers, they are targeted attacks intended to collect personal information for monetary gain,” Merkley said. “Every call a consumer receives in which the caller pretends to be a government official will make consumers question the legitimacy of authentic communication from government agencies, including the SSA.”<\/p>\n
\u201cSolicito que la SSA y la FTC compartan qu\u00e9 medidas se est\u00e1n tomando para limitar las estafas de llamadas autom\u00e1ticas en general, y espec\u00edficamente para abordar las llamadas autom\u00e1ticas que se hacen pasar por agencias federales\u201d, continu\u00f3 Merkley.<\/p>\n
Although the FCC acknowledges that “unwanted calls are far and away the biggest consumer complaint” the agency receives, unauthorized call scams continue to be a prevalent, persistent issue. Earlier this year, Senator Merkley received a number of automated calls impersonating an official from the Social Security Administration, in which the caller claimed to have received suspicious information and threatened to “suspend” his Social Security Number (SSN) immediately – unless Senator Merkley could confirm his SSN over the phone.<\/p>\n
En 2018, 35 000 estadounidenses en todo Estados Unidos informaron esta llamada espec\u00edfica, lo que result\u00f3 en p\u00e9rdidas de $10 millones. En el a\u00f1o anterior, solo 3200 familias se vieron afectadas por esta estafa, perdiendo solo $210,000, lo que destaca la gravedad y la frecuencia cada vez mayores de los esquemas de llamadas automatizadas fraudulentas.<\/p>\n
In April, Senator Merkley and Congresswoman Anna G. Eschoo (D-CA) introduced the Regulatory Oversight Barring Obnoxious (ROBO) Calls and Texts Act of 2019. This legislation would create a Robocall Division within the FCC Enforcement Bureau to reinforce robocall regulations, and require the FCC to develop regulations to keep consumers safe from fraudulent robocall schemes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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