{"id":91941,"date":"2019-06-11T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/us-moves-to-tackle-scourge-of-robocalls"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:03:59","slug":"us-moves-to-tackle-scourge-of-robocalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/us-moves-to-tackle-scourge-of-robocalls","title":{"rendered":"US moves to tackle scourge of \u2018robocalls\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-moves-to-tackle-scourge-of-robocalls.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello? Who\u2019s calling?\u201d For many Americans these days, the call is coming from a \u201cbot\u201d or automated program that seeks to trick them into giving up money or important personal data.<\/p>\n<p>The scourge of \u201crobocalls\u201d by the billions has prompted US regulators to adopt new rules allowing carriers to implement tools to block calls with suspicious origins.<\/p>\n<p>The automated calls may tell respondents that they owe back taxes or other bills that need to be settled immediately, or direct them to call numbers where they are charged for the connection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-tackle-scourge-robocalls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHello? Who\u2019s calling?\u201d For many Americans these days, the call is coming from a \u201cbot\u201d or automated program that seeks to trick them into giving up money or important personal data. The scourge of \u201crobocalls\u201d by the billions has prompted US regulators to adopt new rules allowing carriers to implement tools to block calls with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}