Today, Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined forces with the 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force to notify nine voice service providers that they may be violating state and federal laws by continuing to route allegedly unlawful robocalls across their networks. These warning letters include details about the task force’s investigation and analysis of each provider's illegal or suspicious robocall traffic.
“We will go after network providers that continue to allow illegal robocalls to plague Idaho consumers,” said Attorney General Labrador. “My Consumer Protection Division regularly hears from Idahoans who receive scam jury duty, Medicare cancellation, and utility shut-off calls, just to name a few. If bad actors continue to disregard the law, we will hold them accountable.”
The scams traced include government and financial imposters and impersonations, Social Security imposters, Amazon suspicious charge alerts, credit card interest rate reductions, Medicare-related frauds, Chinese package delivery frauds, cable discount scams, utility disconnect threats, COVID-19 financial relief frauds, and student loan forgiveness scams.
In addition to sending these warning notices demanding that these companies stop transmitting illegal robocalls, the task force has also shared its concerns with federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The task force has sent warning letters to the following companies: Global Net Holdings, All Access Telecom, Lingo Telecom, NGL Communications, Range, RSCom Ltd., Telcast Network, ThinQ Technologies, and Telcentris (Voxox).
Copies of the warning letters are available for public access.