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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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 ...

In a nutshell: Earlier this week, the FCC released its first ruling to address robospam and unlawful text messaging practices. The new directive requires mobile providers to block potentially ...

The FCC has proposed two new rules to combat the seemingly endless scam text scourge. Under the new regulations, US telecom providers will need to take the necessary measures to block robotexts ...

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 ...