Got Robocalled? Don’t Get Mad; Get Busy.
Summary: A Krebs on Security reader who played along with a robocall pitching credit repair was routed to creditfix.com, whose hosting server at 208.95.62.8 also hosted dozens of other sites tied to credit repair businesses registered to a Las Vegas mail drop. Creditfix's compliance contact said the company was scammed by a lead generation firm, and the FCC estimates more than 2.4 billion robocalls are made every month while the FTC logged nearly 3.5 million robocall complaints in fiscal year 2016, up 60 percent from the year prior.
What's compelling: Companies buying marketing leads often cannot say where those leads came from, and the FTC's own advisory states that firms using auto-dialers do not bother to screen numbers against the Do Not Call Registry - leaving the buyer exposed to suits from lawyers who make a living suing over robocall violations.
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