The GOP-e will be very sad.
They were the ones who tried to block this in ‘91 before cell phones were common.
This is a big win for Americans everywhere in both parties.
no robocalls to cell phones period.
I bet every judge there has been pestered with theses calls. I would like to bring back gibbets for the people behind these calls.
Any country that maintains call farms that robocall U.S. cellphone owners should be on the sanctions list.
There have been three times I’ve had debt collectors call me for debts I did not owe and tell me the call is being recorded. I tell them I don’t owe the debt.
Shortly after they violate the Fair Debt Collection Act. I ask them to confirm what they just said. They always do.
I then inform them that they are violating the FDCA and that I am also recording the phone call; to never contact me again; warn them the are at legal peril if they damage my credit rating; and, I will sue them if they do any of the above.
In some states violating the FDCA in that state cancels the entire debt.
I moved from California to NH in 2015, but retained my (818) cell phone number....
Unfortunately - like clockwork every day starting about 2 PM Eastern for at least a few hours - I get regular robocalls from assorted (818) vendors, probably because I did a few house renovations before selling and moving out of San Fernando Valley.
F all those contractors who sold my ph #, guess time to get a (603) local number....
I had a bunch of calls a couple of years ago from people claiming that they would ‘protect’ me from losing my home due to liens (I think it was mortgage debt). But, like most people here who pay off their house, rather than ‘buy that boat’, I wasn’t in play for them.
...but they did sound legit (relatively speaking), and they were. I finally found the culprit babe in another part of the city - for whatever ever reason she had put down my cell phone number on her paper...and she was about to lose HER house (not mine)...and I suspect it ended that way.
I’m sure the spammer criminals will immediately reform and find legitimate work.
All telemarketers should be jailed. Maybe it would prevent them from entering our homes without our permission.
Looks like SCOTUS struck down the ability of government to make robo calls to collect debt. So now, both public and private entities aren’t allowed to do it. makes sense.
It’s kinda stupid. I average 17 robocalls a day and al,ost all are from fake phone numbers. I report them all the time and am told they can do nothing about it so it seems it is a law with no teeth.