Arizona, feds ask bank scam robocalls to stop
(The Center Square)— Attorney General Kris Mayes and attorneys general throughout the country are asking a company to stop sending out robocalls.
“My office will not tolerate companies that facilitate illegal robocalls, which annoy and harm Arizonans,” Mayes said in a statement regarding iDentidad Telecom.
“If you route or facilitate illegal or suspicious robocall traffic, you will be held accountable. Along with my fellow attorneys general, we will continue to fight to protect consumers from spam calls,” she added.
The effort to thwart the calls come from the the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which has 51 attorney generals.
The Miami-based company is accused of sending out scam banking calls, according to the Federal Communications Commission, who send the company a “cease-and-desist.”
“The information available to the Task Force shows that iDentidad is involved in, at a minimum, transmitting robocall traffic” that could be deemed “suspicious” and “illegal” according to the letter signed by Tracy Nayer, a special deputy attorney general for North Carolina’s Department of Justice Consumer Protection Division.
According to a news release, if the alleged robocall traffic does not stop, the task force could take further legal steps.
“Federal and state cooperation is critical for protecting consumers. We cannot allow scammers to target families with fake ‘transaction alerts’ from credit card companies and money transfer services,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.
“I thank the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force for their leadership and for working with us to combat and cut off these garbage calls,” she added.
The Center Square reached out to the company’s vice president of operations via email for comment, but they did not respond in time for publication.
