{"id":2149,"date":"2021-07-19T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2021-07-19T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:04:54","slug":"feds-crack-down-on-brothers-behind-45-million-illegal-robocalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=2149","title":{"rendered":"Feds Crack Down on Brothers Behind 45 Million Illegal Robocalls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are tired of receiving robocalls, you can place your phone number on the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Do Not Call list.  Doing so makes it illegal for a company you haven&#8217;t done business with to call you without your consent and also allows you to file a complaint with the FTC when you receive a robocall.  Filing a complaint takes less than two minutes and helps the FTC to identify and prosecute the culprits behind these calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phone number for the FTC&#8217;s Do Not Call List is <strong>888-382-1222<\/strong>.  This is also the number you can call to file a complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the case of three New Jersey brothers operating an illegal robocall-scheme, such complaints have now enabled the FTC to shut down their illegal operation, ban the brothers from doing telemarketing again, and make them pay $1.6 million in fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robocalls-ftc-crack-down-telemarketing\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robocalls-ftc-crack-down-telemarketing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are tired of receiving robocalls, you can place your phone number on the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Do Not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}