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Perspectives: How should we hang up on robocalls?

Close up of woman's hands with smartphone and unknown incoming phone call on it, fraud or scam schemes phone tile scam fraud robocall / Getty Images
Close up of woman's hands with smartphone and unknown incoming phone call on it, fraud or scam schemes phone tile scam fraud robocall / Getty Images Close up of woman's hands with smartphone and unknown incoming phone call on it, fraud or scam schemes phone tile scam fraud robocall / Getty Images

By Ryan Nabil and James Rosen / Tribune Content Agency 9 min read

Point: Government must do more to stop robocall onslaught

By James Rosen

Congress created the Do Not Call Registry in 2003 by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, and still robocalls kept coming.

The Federal Trade Commission outlawed robocalls outright in 2009, and yet they kept coming – by the billions.

Samsung, Apple, LG and other smartphone manufacturers created call-block features, but spam sellers outwit them by using cheap computer programs that scramble the digits to produce all manner of phony alternative incoming numbers.