Congressional lawmakers, including Arizona Rep. David Schweikert, are pushing the country’s largest telecommunications companies to do more to prevent scams.
Despite previous efforts out of Washington to swat robocalls, scams have continued to grow in recent years.
Schweikert, the Republican chairman of the Joint Economic Committee drafted a letter with New Hampshire’s Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan. They wrote that Americans received more than 50 billion robocalls last year.
The lawmakers are requesting information from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon on their current efforts to curb scams and bad actors.
The letter cites an FTC Federal Trade Commission which found text and phone calls are among the top methods scammers use, with median losses being in the thousands of dollars per victim.
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