For years, businesses have dealt with their legitimate calls being ignored or confused with spam, while consumers have been the recipients of millions of illegal and unwanted calls. To combat this issue, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken a number...
First Orion is excited to announce an all-new Privacy Star experience! What is PrivacyStar? PrivacyStar is a FREE app for iPhone and Android that helps tag, block, and stop scam calls for good. The automatic scam protection checks a database of more than 500 million...
When we ran a consumer survey for our Annual Scam Report, we asked people about the types of scam calls they received. What we weren’t expecting was over 900 comments about the creative ways scammers have tried to steal from those they call. We compiled some of...
According to our latest survey, the scammers are working smarter – not harder – in 2020. While the volume of scam calls reported stayed on par with previous years, we saw the number of people falling for those calls skyrocket. Compared to 2019, scammers...
We are excited to announce a new website that streamlines the telephone number registration process for businesses, non-profits, first responders, and any other call originator. The leading analytics companies, who instill trust in the phone call, have collaborated to...
Over the past several years, the FCC has been giving service providers flexibility to address unwanted and illegal calls. However, the passage in December 2019 of the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act requires carriers...