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Dear J, Robocallers — the Freddy Kruegers of our phone lines — are back! And they’ve got a nasty new trick up their sleeves that we need to beat back immediately. The FCC is considering a request that would throw open the door for a new form of robocalls: ‘ringless voicemails’ that would bypass your ringtone and go straight to your voicemail, filling it with pre-recorded political campaign messages, annoying sales pitches, and other unwanted spam calls. Four years ago we stopped a similar request by flooding the FCC with consumer opposition. Help us do it again by signing our petition to the FCC to deny this request. We only have days to tell the FCC to kill this horrible idea once and for all! After years of us fighting robocalls together, in 2019 we finally got significant legislation passed that cracks down on robocallers, and makes the phone companies use the latest tools to tag and block unwanted spam calls to our phones. But the robocallers won’t stop. A robocaller operating on behalf of a political campaign has filed a request with the FCC for an exemption from the federal law that restricts unwanted automated calls, claiming that a ringless voicemail is not a 'call' under the law, so voicemails can be sent to your phone without your consent. But ringless voicemail can be almost as obnoxious as a robocall that rings to you, because you have to check your voicemail to see who called. For most smartphones, it shows up immediately as a voice message alert. And of course, they would leave seniors and others susceptible to telemarketing or dangerous scams. With so much at stake, it’s critical that FCC commissioners hear from you before they decide. Sign our petition, and let’s block this latest attack from robocallers! We only have until Oct. 4 to send a clear message to the FCC to block this request. Please share this email and petition with friends, family, and anyone you know who hates robocalls, so they can add their voices. Thank you for all you do, Tim Marvin |
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