As well as representatives from a number of major Telephone Companies. 12 companies have joined us today. They are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. First, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Gordon thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of un
Using just phones and the internet, fraudsters have proven to be relentless. Seniors,t our nations we must continue to not only prosecute con artists, who steal literally billions from our seniors, but to find new ways to block illegal spoofing and robo calls the Network Level. Last year, robo callers generated more than 26 billion unwanted calls that reached mobile phones. Were included, the number soars to 48 billion. May, our residency received 93 average robo calls each day. So far, robo callers are on pace to generate 50 billion unwanted illegal robo calls targeting american consumers. Overwhelmingly are initiated by offshore robo callers who are using new technologies to perpetuate their schemes. Today, we will focus on a practice called spoofing. Allows scammers to mask their identity by replacing their caller id with one that fits their story. When victims see the irs or the local shares Department Show up theyeir caller id, understandably answer the phone. They are also worrie
He doesnt get to tweet out orders to American Companies. Thats not the way our democracy works. Just as representative seth moulton announced his withdrawal from the race, the president tweeted this message blaming the representative for massachusetts for the dow being down 573 point. Look, im glad he thinks i have more influence over wall street than he does and the dow is disappointed im not in the race. New york Entrepreneur Andrew Yang responded to criticism that with a wide field of candidaes, the party needs to focus on unity. The voting is months and months away. Were headed to the third debate. Im not concerned at all about people thinking there are different ideas and visions for the country being presented. Thats what youd expect at this stage. Reporter and back out here live, its been kind of funny, actually. We have hotel guests who areersw had ia at this summer meeting was happening. You can see they are a little bit confused as they try and weave in and out the crowds. We
But also to find new more illegal ways to block spoofing and robocalls at the Network Level. Robocallers generated unwanted 26 billion calls that reached americans mobiles phones. Land lines are included, 48 billion. Oars to in maine alone our residents an astonishing 93 last year. Ocalls calls to average of 73 in our state. So far this year scammers are on generate more than 58 billion unwanted illegal rodeo targeting american consumers. Hese scammers overwhelmingly are initiated offshore, using new technology to perpetuate their schemes. A practice focus on called spoofing. This allows scammers to mask heir identity by replacing the caller i. D. Tied to their actual with one that fits their story. Irs i would say or the local Sheriffs Department pop caller i. D. , they the phone. Bly answer also worried, and also easily hustled into doing demand. The scammers with the emergence of the modern voiceover internet protocol voip, federal can call centers om anywhere in the world, as far f
This shift in the body politic, which we now need to address and i am in full agreement that we need to address it, dont mistake me here, but i think there is a corollary question of why. Why are we in this situation and is there something about our democracy that also needs to be addressed as part of this process . We believe is here but you can watch it in its entirety on our website, cspan. Org. Take you live now to capital hill where the House Committee is holding a hearing on how Artificial Intelligence can help defend and secure the u. S. Live coverage, here on cspan3. Cspan3 without objection, the chairman to claim in recess at any point. The purpose of this hearing is to receive test money from private sector stakeholders relating to the opportunities and challenges resented by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence and discuss how the a. I. Technologies in support of the Homeland Security mission. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. In this era of rapidly advanc