On April 10, 2025, the 51 Attorneys General that compose the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force issued warnings to 9 phone providers for facilitating illegal/scam robocalls. The businesses are:
Operated out of 919 North Market Street, Suite 950,
Wilmington, Delaware, 19801
Received over 590 traceback notices since 2019 over auto warranty, credit card, Medicare benefits and utility rebate scams.
Has also facilitated approximately 76,300 scam calls on behalf of bhenchods impersonating Amazon or Apple and approximately 27,438 Social Security scam calls.
Has also facilitated over 409.6 million calls from invalid numbers and over 3.29 million from illegally spoofed phone numbners.
I always love reading updates like this. Finally, someone is taking notice, along with some action, about these companies we’ve all been warning people about this whole time.
Agreed, but we definitely need sterner response from the authorities! Ideally, I would like our country to modify its laws to make it a criminally prosecutable offense for the carriers to ignore legitimate reports of illegal activities, including illicit robocalls, on their network. Wouldn’t it be amazing if turning a blind eye to illegal activities on their network would lead to prison sentences for their “leadership”? Can you imagine the faces of the execs from Onvoy/Sinch, Ring Central (2 infamous Vlads), Telnyx and Peerless Network/InfoBip if such laws were enacted?
Alternatively, at the very least, they should strike down or modify the “common carrier” provision in the current law. It is an outdated provision that effectively shields carriers from private lawsuits. I’d love to have the opportunity to sue the carriers for egregious misconduct of their scummy robocalling foreign “clientele” in case if negligence on their part could be proven. Imagine how much money that could generate for us and TCPA attorneys! Such a blissful dream!
I agree 100% with your statement Terminator, but we don’t even have laws that make it illegal for attempted white collar theft. If I try to snatch an old lady’s purse off her shoulder on the street, it is considered attempted theft & is an actual punishable crime. If I attempt it over the phone or some other wired device, then it’s tough titty grandma.
So at the very least I would add that you need to make attempted white collar theft illegal as well.
Very sad and infuriating. Not to mention, currently, our telephone network, which is part of our strategic infrastructure, is largely owned by questionable foreign actors. For example, Peerless Network is owned by InfoBip which is privately held and managed by Croatian and Serbian executives. Sinch is a somewhat Swedish enterprise with significant Indian, Filipino and other Asian investments and executives. Ring Central is managed and co-owned by several Jewish Ukrainian and Jewish Russian executives. Numerous smaller VOIP carriers are owned and operated by Indian and Pakistani nationals located overseas.
As you can see, there is a major disturbing trend here. With such lack of oversight and loose laws, we might as well let Xi Jinping and his goons purchase our Navy and nukes and give our oil to Vladimir Putin LOL. I wouldn’t be surprised if many telcos are secretly operated and owned by foreign intelligence services. They are already controlled and owned by foreign nationals from hostile countries, so what would stop them from selling our data to the highest spy bidder? Years of imbecilic neoliberal policies led to this mess…
I’ve noticed that same pattern in the short time that I’ve been part of this community. I’ve noticed that there has been more of a concerted effort to crack down on some of these VOIP vaginas also.
Still I feel that the point you made needs to go before congress so we can start pushing for laws to change this problem.
Great minds think alike 