House Oversight economic and consumer policy subcommittee Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.) has asked acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to request information on how the Commission is addressing spam text messages, which, he noted, led to $86 million in fraud last year.As the implementation of the industry's STIR/ SHAKEN (Secure Telephone Identity Revisited/Sig-nature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) caller ID authentication framework helps to reduce illegal robocalls, "bad actors will likely shift their attention to other means of scamming consumers. Spam texts appear to be a likely vehicle for scammers to use," Chairman Krishnamoorthi said."In Illinois, we have seen a rise in spam texts, many designed to appear as if they are coming from Illinois government agencies. In March 2021, Illinois received the third-most spam texts per capita. Of the 7.4 billion spam texts sent to Americans in March, Illinoisans received an estimated 301,190,677. Illinois's 28 spam texts per capita during the month trailed the per capita numbers of only Texas and Georgia," he added, citing data from an April RoboKiller press release.
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