Anyone who's ever gotten an "urgent" message from an unknown number knows the growing scourge presented by text fraud. Now the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking important steps to ...

The Federal Communications Commission is cracking down on spammy text messages with new rules for telecom companies, citing a surge of consumer complaints in recent years tied to unwanted robotexts.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Thursday that it adopted its first regulations targeting scam text messages sent to consumers. Under the new rules, mobile service providers ...

New regulations force mobile service providers to proactively protect consumers by blocking robotexts from unused, unallocated, or invalid phone numbers. New regulations force mobile service ...

The Federal Communication Commission announced today its first set of rules designed to reduce the number of scam texts Americans get. The move will require carriers to block texts from three ...

As the FCC notes, text message scams are an increasingly prevalent threat to consumers. In fact, from 2015 to 2022, robotext complaints increased from around 3,300 to 18,900 a year. Also ...

The FCC described the rules as the agency's "first regulations specifically targeting the increasing problem of scam text messages sent to consumers." Carriers will be required to block text ...