If you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it’s a robocall.
If you’re getting a lot of robocalls trying to sell you something, odds are the calls are illegal. Many are also probably scams.
Seniors are primary targets for fraudsters, accounting for 38% of scams. Estimates are that 5 million cases of elder fraud annually result in $27.4 billion in losses.
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson has been among those combating robocalls.
Most recently, Wilson urged the Federal Communications Commission to put in place measures that will help stem the tide of foreign-based illegal robocalls that attempt to scam Americans. A letter to the FCC was signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
“Robocalls are one of the most aggravating nuisances on earth. I’ve received half a dozen myself just in the last two days,” Attorney General Wilson said Jan. 11 via press release. “Many of them are coming from other countries, so we need the Federal Communications Commission to take action because there’s nothing we can do as individual states.”
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