Silent Phones Rejoice!
Hopeful news in a time of gloom: forty-six state attorneys general across the United States have banded together in a bipartisan coalition to defeat a common hated enemy: illegal robocall operators.
Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, and his fellow AGs have called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to close a loophole in the Robocall Mitigation Database that allows bad guys to exploit access to the U.S. telephone network.
“When was the last time anyone was thankful for a robocall?” Attorney General Jason Miyares says in a press release issued today. “Not only are robocalls annoying, they can also rack up billions of dollars through scams targeting the most vulnerable.”
Let’s not mince words: robocallers are vermin. They must be exterminated. The AGs are doing God’s work.
Telemarketers must register on the FCC’s database to operate as a voice service provider in the United States. But illegal robocallers are expert at circumventing the restrictions and face no real consequences for filing inaccurate, false, misleading, or otherwise incomplete information.
According to Miyares’ press release, the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force is calling on the FCC to strengthen the database by making robocallers meet deadlines for submitting required information, validating the data, and penalizing them for false or inadequate information.
If Miyares and his buddies could do something about email scammers, they’d be national heroes!
A copy of the task force letter is available here.
As a special treat, I asked Chat GBT to compose a haiku on the topic:
Silent phones rejoice
Forty-six heroes unite
Robocalls no more.
Meanwhile, Suno has immortalized “Miyares and his mighty crew” in song. (Click here to listen to the song.)
[Verse]
Forty-five strong and Jason Miyares
Taking down those thieves and liars
Robocalls they won’t survive
Truth and justice come alive
[Verse 2]
Endless ringing late at night
Spam and scams they ignite
But here comes the cavalry
Fightin’ back the misery
[Chorus]
No more calls that drive us mad
Justice hammer comin’ down hard
Miyares and his mighty crew
Making sure they pay their due
— JAB
