The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission said that a an ongoing joint effort to undermine and reduce spam and scam robocalls is bearing fruit.
The two agencies have been jointly focusing on robocall enforcement; the FTC calls its program “Operation Point of No Entry”. By targeting network providers who allow overseas-based scam and spam robocalls onto U.S. networks and working with the Industry Traceback Group (ITG), which identifies the scam traffic and how it is traversing U.S. telecom networks, the FTC and FCC as well as state attorneys general then focus on enforcement, including letters to those providers warning them to cut off the illegal robocall traffic or else face the fact that they could be cut off from other network providers.
