Complaints about spam texts were up 146% last year. Now, the FCC wants to take action
Even as the federal government has cracked down on robocalls, more than 47 billion spam texts have been sent so far in 2021, one company found, costing Americans millions.
From phony package delivery notices, to fake requests from banks for personal information, to supposed COVID-19 contact tracers looking for a photo of your vaccine card â text message scams are on the rise in the U.S., costing Americans millions of dollars.
Even as the federal government has worked to crack down on robocalls, scam
