Finally, after a damn decade of ignoring it's responsibility, the FCC orders phone companies to block car warranty robocalls

It's been a success for the scammers; the Federal Trade Commission estimates that one company successfully defrauded consumers of $6 million. At long last, the Federal Communications Commission has had enough and is telling phone carriers to stop letting robocallers use their networks for warranty scams.

The warranties, which are not made by actual OEMs and frequently are packed with fine print that makes them functionally useless, are already largely illegal to call about, thanks to the Do Not Call List and the TRACED act. The calls haven't abated in spite of these laws, and so the FCC is now tasking phone carriers themselves with blocking them before they even get through the network.

The phone call scam itself, however, started in 2007, when US Fidelis began an automated phone call system to aggressively market its services.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/fcc-orders-phone-companies-to-block-car-warranty-robocalls