AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission, on June 25 announced a crackdown on “illegal robocalls.” The crackdown, nicknamed “Operation Call it Qui, ts,” is part of the FTC’s ongoing attempt to help stem the tide of annoying and unsolicited prerecorded telemarketing calls. Paxton said the effort consists of nearly one hundred actions targeting operations around the United States liable for a couple of billion calls, pitching everything from fraudulent credit card offerings to automobile insurance safety.
The Texas Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division took action on several cases affecting Texans, including action against organizations that have made calls to folks on the Texas or federal no-call listinglistcalls are an invasion of privacy, and most robocalls are illegal. Even worse, robocall scams regularly take advantage of clients through identity theft and by stealing their hard-earned cash,” Paxton said. ”‘Operation Call it Quits’ represents simply one of the many patron protection and enforcement action instances my workplace has successfully collaborated on with the FTC in our ongoing attempt to defend Texans.”
Paxton’s workplace stated there had been a substantial increase in the wide variety of unlawful robocalls because Internet-powered phone structures have made it reasonably priced and easy for scammers to make illegal calls from everywhere in the globe and to cover from regulation enforcement by displaying fake caller ID information, also known as spoofing.
