(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The Illinois Attorney General is joining his counterparts in all 50 states to ramp up the fight against robocalls.
Attorney General Kwame Raoul is joining 51 attorneys general from across the United Sates and the District of Columbia to call on the FCC to do more to crack down on robocalls.
The AG said scam robocalls cost customers, law enforcement, and telephone companies over $13 billion dollars per year.
Most calls, he said, originate overseas with spoofed phone numbers to look like they originated in the United States.
The FCC has recently implemented rules that require phone calls to be digitally authenticated so that the number you see on the caller ID is accurate.
Raoul and other attorneys general want the rules to be expanded to intermediate telephone providers. They also want phone companies to do more to shut down illegal traffic and to quickly respond to law enforcement traceback requests.
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