Consumers Seeing Growing Risk from Robotexts, FCC Warns
Robotexts pose a rising risk for consumers, the FCC warned Thursday. “Substantial increases in consumer complaints to the FCC, reports by non-government robocall and robotext blocking services, and anecdotal and news reporting make it clear that text messages are increasingly…
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being used by scammers to target American consumers,” the agency said. The FCC received 5,700 consumer complaints about robotexts in 2019, growing this year to 8,500 through June 30, said a news release: “RoboKiller estimates consumers received over 12 billion robotexts in June.”