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PASADENA, Calif., March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
Spokeo, the leader in people search and reverse phone number lookup, is pleased to announce a new tool to fight unwanted calls. Our Phone Reputation Score feature, now available on our website or the Spokeo mobile app for Android, is the quickest and most convenient way for consumers to learn whether it’s safe to answer or return a call from an unrecognized number.
Robocalls, nuisance spam calls and straightforwardly criminal scam calls remain a problem for most Americans, despite the passage of recent legislation — the 2019 Pallone–Thune TRACED Act — designed to curtail them. The measures of the TRACED Act, in conjunction with existing tools such as the Do Not Call list, are intended to help reduce the number of nuisance and spam calls consumers receive.
One key aspect of the legislation required telephone companies to upgrade their caller ID capabilities, resulting in new messages such as “Valid Number,” “Fraud” or “Potential Scam.” This is a useful new capability for consumers, but it’s not especially precise —it’s a broad-strokes approach that fails to filter out a large number of nuisance and scam calls. Even when it works as intended, it’s not as useful as a proactive, consumer-facing scammer phone-number lookup tool. With the launch of the Phone Reputation Score feature, Spokeo will…
