The FTC just came down hard on those annoying robocall operations

Robocalls have become an unfortunately common part of daily life in America. Everyone knows how it works: A phone number, often somewhat similar to your own, calls you and offers some kind of health insurance or student loan scam.

It's almost not even worth answering the phone for numbers you don't recognize anymore.

With any luck, robocalls might slow down just a little bit in the near future. The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday it had settled charges with four different scam phone call operations in the U.S. The FTC collectively credited these robocallers with "billions" of fraudulent phone calls. Read more...