FTC Announces Winners of Death-to-Robocalls Challenge http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was simply not able to handle the deluge of robocalls and caller-ID spoofing, the FTC took to private enterprise to dream up a technological solution to block these unwanted nuisances on both mobile and landline phones. The FTC announced Tuesday three different concepts that could work as solutions, and urged private enterprise to try to make them a market reality.



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