Have you ever been on the receiving end of a recorded call that starts off “Your car’s warranty is about to expire….” The first time I got one of those calls it scared the daylights out of me. I had thoughts of my transmission dropping out while driving my kids around. My kids aren’t mechanics and neither am I so we’d be in quite the pickle. The calls keep coming to your phones, home and mobile. How annoying is that? All I could think was that these guys are spamming me through my phone.
Well, there’s good news. Next Tuesday the feds will make it illegal for telemarketers to use robocalls. “American consumers have made it crystal clear that few things annoy them more than the billions of commercial telemarketing robocalls they receive every year,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said in a news release. You got that right! Just like spam we don’t have the time or patience to deal with this junk. The feds also enacted CAN-SPAM a few years back to deal with spam messages. It’s estimated that close to 90% of all email traffic is junk mail. Hopefully, the robocalls perpetrators won’t decide to move their operations offshore and use crazy call-routing schemes to keep the pressure up to persuade consumers they need new car warranties.
After next Tuesday I can rest a little easier. I won’t have to screen my calls as diligently as before. I only wish this law had included the annoying political phone calls that come around each election cycle. Oh well, no law is perfect but it’s a start.
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