Veriwave Telco “identified one client as the source of all of the calls.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Federal Communications Commission said it is preparing to block a phone company that carried illegal robocalls pushing fake programs that promised to wipe out consumers’ tax debt.
Call recipients who listened to the prerecorded message and chose to speak to an operator were then asked to provide private information.
The robocalls began, "I’ve been tasked to personally contact you and make sure that you have been provided the information about the new National Tax Relief Program.
Under the FCC’s blocking procedures, yesterday’s order triggered a 14-day period in which Veriwave can respond and “demonstrate compliance” with the rules.
“YouMail, a software app company, estimates that approximately 15.8 million calls of this nature were transmitted in the three months immediately preceding the start of the 2024 tax filing season,” the FCC said.
FCC records show that Veriwave, based in Delaware, testified under penalty of perjury in November 2023 that it completed implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN technology that inhibits robocalls by authenticating Caller ID information.
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This is the first I’ve heard of STIR/SHAKEN, but I’ve been wondering for years why something like that wasn’t in place.
