Phone Companies' New Tools to Block Spam Calls

What you can do...

Don't recognize that number? Don't answer it.

Phone companies will have greater authority to block unwanted calls from reaching customers as regulators adopted new rules to combat automated messages known as robocalls, nytimes.com reports.

Rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission represent the latest tools against robocalls, which pester consumers, sometimes multiple times a day, and often push scams, the news service wrote.

The Times' report also suggested a number of steps you can do to protect yourself from spam callers: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/11/16/technology/ap-us-tec-kicking-robocalls.htm

For more protection tips:

-- CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-tips-to-stop-annoying-robocalls/

-- Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/robocall-getting-worse-but-help-is-here/

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