A phone company agreed to pay a $1 million fine for transmitting spoofed robocalls in which a deepfake of President Joe Biden’s voice urged New Hampshire residents not to vote. Lingo Telecom, which is ...

On October 28, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to adopt a Ninth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) in its Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful ...

The Federal Communications Commission is hoping to solve one of the thorniest problems in the fight against robocalls: how to verify caller ID on older landlines that don't use Internet Protocol (IP) ...

On Oct. 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously adopted the Improving Verification and Presentation of Caller Identification Information Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ...

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively banned number spoofing from robocalls, that only prevents someone from making up a fake caller ID to try to trick you into ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued its "Top Scams of 2024" update, and the results aren't promising. Consumers lost about $1.9 billion to fraud through phone calls, texts or emails ...

Does Caller ID Mean Much in the Age of Spoofed Numbers? Your email has been sent Learn how caller ID works, why people use it, how you can manage your own caller ID data, and how to protect yourself.

Popular caller ID app Truecaller has long left iPhone users at a disadvantage by not offering the caller information in real time — a feature its Android users have enjoyed for a while. Today that ...