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The Vermont Attorney General has reached a first-in-the-nation settlement with a telecommunications company that will prevent it from routing international robocalls into the state.
Robocalls are the top complaint received at the Vermont Consumer Assistance Program. According to Attorney General T.J. Donovan, nearly 160,000 such calls hit Vermont every day and in March 2021 alone the state received about 5 million of the scam calls. Republican State Senator Randy Brock is a co-sponsor of a bill that would prohibit robocalls in the state.
“Robocalls are sort of like an electronic mosquito," Brock said. "We constantly find them buzzing around our head and occasionally they bite and actually take blood. They are not just an annoyance but they are a danger. And they’re so ubiquitous. Just as an example when the chief of staff of the Attorney General’s office was testifying in one of our committees she got a robocall. One of the senators on the committee got a robocall. That’s how bad it is!”