FTC-PR-240108-1
Date Released: 
January 8, 2024
Headline:
FTC-PR-240108-1 – FTC Issues Biennial Report to Congress on the National Do Not Call Registry – In FY 2023, the FTC received more than 2.1 million complaints and 2.7 million new numbers were added to the DNC Registry
Excerpt:
The Federal Trade Commission issued its biennial report to Congress on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry that shows the number of consumers who have placed their telephone numbers on the Registry over the past two years has reached more than 249 million.
The report also notes that the FTC has received more than two million Do Not Call complaints in fiscal year (FY) 2023 with people overwhelmingly reporting these violations came via robocalls, as opposed to live telemarketing.
Explore Date with the FTCImposter scam, medical needs and prescription scam calls led the list of commonly reported call topics in FY 2023, followed by calls related to reducing debt and energy, solar, and utilities. In response to the consistently high number of complaints from the public about impersonator scams, the FTC recently continued its rulemaking initiative to combat business and government impersonation fraud. A data spotlight issued in June 2023 found that bogus bank fraud warnings were the most common form of text message scam reported to the agency, and that many of the most common text scams impersonate well-known businesses.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-issues-biennial-report-congress-national-do-not-call-registry
[Date Accessed: 3/3/2024]
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