Annoying spam sales calls from mobile phone numbers to be banned in Spain from this month

Friday, 7 February 2025, 17:12 Compartir Spain's Minister for the Digital Transformation, Óscar López, has said that central government plans to approve a ministerial order that will ban commercial sales calls from numbers that do not start with an 800 …

Trump’s memecoin wallet flooded with spam coins with fake endorsements

Donald Trump’s recently launched memecoin has sparked a wave of copycat tokens, with his official digital wallet receiving over 700 spam coins falsely implying they have been “endorsed” by either him, or members of his family.  According to a Financial …

PS5 Spam Games Have Been Delisted

Summary Sony has seemingly begun removing low-effort spam games from the PlayStation Store. Developers and players have complained that the Store is filled with titles that use generative AI and have little to no content. RandomSpinGames released 19 titles …

Robocalls and spam still a scourge. Some carriers in Colorado get an F for protecting consumers.

Phone companies represent a critical line of defense when it comes to warning about or blocking robocalls and robotexts. But most telecom carriers are failing to adequately protect their customers, which is contributing to a rebound in the number of spam …

Say goodbye to spam calls with new regulations in Spain

Date Published: 07/02/2025 Before February is out, those annoying spam calls and cold calls from companies you’ve never heard of will be a thing of the past in Spain. The Ministry of Digital Transformation has just signed off on an order that will …

RBI: Will Act With Entities Mis-Selling Loans & Spam Callers

Proposal seeks stricter regulations on spam marketing calls

TDT | Manama Email: mail@newsofbahrain.com Ninety per cent of spam marketing calls targeting Bahrain come from abroad and beyond regulators’ reach, but the Shura Council is pressing ahead with a plan to tighten the rules. While authorities are working with …

Americans in One State Could Sue Over Spam Calls Under New Bill

A Missouri lawmaker has introduced a bill that would give residents the ability to sue telemarketers and scammers who use phone number "spoofing" to trick consumers into answering robocalls. HB564, also known as the Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act, …

Spam Emails, Spam Lawsuit: The GOP Tries To Break Gmail By Court Order

from the open-the-floodgates dept In 1872 California enacted a law declaring that “every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he thus offers to carry.” In …

Self-Soothing Through the Apocalypse Via My Spam Account

By A.J. Daulerio This past Thanksgiving, I spelunked through the spam messages on my personal Gmail account in search of a one-time passcode sent from ESPN, which I hadn't received, so as requested I “checked my spam folder.” Have you ever checked the …