Thousands of telephone lines sit on a Federal Trade Commission “honeypot” computer, answering and trapping incoming calls, and capturing caller IDs and voice recordings.
Many of the telephone numbers used in this technological trap were abandoned by consumers because they were flooded by illegal telemarketing calls.
But, to the FTC, the unwanted numbers are just the bait needed to lure in the scammers.
The trap for robocallers — autodialed marketing calls sometimes set up just to steal money — feeds an ever-growing database and is one of the FTC’s technological weapons against the millions and millions of unwanted calls made to landlines and cellphones every month.
Last year, the FTC each month averaged more than 445,000 Do Not Call (DNC) list complaints from consumers, with about two-thirds related to robocalls. Most of the scammers are in the U.S., but many are in countries like India, China and Nigeria, and beyond the reach of U.S. authorities.
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Many of the telephone numbers used in this technological trap were abandoned by consumers because they were flooded by illegal telemarketing calls.
But, to the FTC, the unwanted numbers are just the bait needed to lure in the scammers.
The trap for robocallers — autodialed marketing calls sometimes set up just to steal money — feeds an ever-growing database and is one of the FTC’s technological weapons against the millions and millions of unwanted calls made to landlines and cellphones every month.
Last year, the FTC each month averaged more than 445,000 Do Not Call (DNC) list complaints from consumers, with about two-thirds related to robocalls. Most of the scammers are in the U.S., but many are in countries like India, China and Nigeria, and beyond the reach of U.S. authorities.
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