(WWJ) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is spearheading a nationwide crackdown on annoying robocalls
As part of the initiative called "Operation Robocall Roundup," Nessel and 50 bipartisan attorneys general are sending warning letters to 37 voice providers demanding that they act now to stop illegal robocalls being routed through their networks.
Nessel said the companies are ignoring federal regulations which allows the robocalls and scammers to filter through downstream providers, and eventually to your phone.
The FCC is also banning seven of those providers from its robocall database, which means other providers will not be allowed to route calls through their networks.
Nessel hopes this serves as a warning to other voice providers.
"Operation Robocall Roundup will help ensure voice service providers do their part to stop illegal robocalls," Nessel said. "I look forward to continuing to work with the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to protect people from these persistent and intrusive calls."
The voice service providers receiving warning letters are:
• Advantage Investors LLC
• Alpha Stream
• Ananya Traders LLC
• Ariyan Khan
• BBT Voice Private Limited
• Belthrough
• BPO VoIP
• Collection 3 LLC
• Communications and Telephone Systems Co.
• Dial Vista Corp.
• DigitalOcean, LLC
• Dtel Network LLC
• End Zone Financial Services
• EON Telecom Inc.
• Family Communication Inc.
• Fiber Flux VOIP
• First Tele Communications Inc.
• Flow VOIP LLC
• Globe Tech Solutions
• Higher Response Marketing, Inc.
• HK KwaiFong Group Limited
• Infinity SIP LLC
• Lexico Telecom LTD / Lextel LTD
• Mexico IP Phones LLC
• Nexusphere VOIP LLC
• Pleedex LLC
• Quantum Link VOIP LLC
• Ringnition
• SK Teleco LLC
• SkyPulse VOIP
• Stacy Newsome LNCC LCC
• Telnextrix LLC
• Terra Voip
• TheVisionConnect
• Tiera Enterprises LLC
• Voip Torque
• Whisl Telecom, LLC / Telconus / Telcon US / Telcon Voice
View a copy of the warning letter here.
In 2022, 51 attorneys general joined forces to create the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force. The Task Force investigates and takes legal action against companies responsible for significant volumes of illegal and fraudulent robocall traffic routed into and across the U.S.
