{"id":1009122,"date":"2026-05-22T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009122"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:21:19","slug":"us-congressional-committee-asks-telecoms-to-do-more-to-prevent-scams-as-losses-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/us-congressional-committee-asks-telecoms-to-do-more-to-prevent-scams-as-losses-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congressional committee asks telecoms to do more to prevent scams as losses surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A powerful congressional committee is urging major telecommunications companies to do more to protect Americans against scams, part of a widening investigation into the role that U.S. companies play in the surge in cyberscams that cost Americans an estimated $200 billion in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consumers need to be able to trust that the calls and texts they receive &#8211; from their doctor&#8217;s office or their child&#8217;s school, for example &#8211; are authentic. Scam communications, however, are increasingly difficult to distinguish from legitimate messages, and too much of the burden of detection is falling on customers,&#8221; Rep. David Schweikert, R.-Ariz., the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, and Sen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A powerful congressional committee is urging major telecommunications companies to do more to protect Americans against scams, part of a widening investigation into the role that U.S. companies play in the surge in cyberscams that cost Americans an estimated $200 billion in 2024. &#8220;Consumers need to be able to trust that the calls and texts they receive &#8211; from their doctor&#8217;s office or their child&#8217;s school, for example &#8211; are authentic. Scam communications, however, are increasingly difficult to distinguish from legitimate messages, and too much of the burden of detection is falling on customers,&#8221; Rep. David Schweikert, R.-Ariz., the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009140,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009122\/revisions\/1009140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}