{"id":156892,"date":"2026-09-01T22:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156892"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:30:49","slug":"us-congress-seeks-to-identify-foreign-countries-behind-scam-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156892","title":{"rendered":"US Congress seeks to identify foreign countries behind scam calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS lawmakers are trying to identify which foreign countries are the biggest sources of unlawful robocalls targeting Americans, as Congress steps up efforts to combat a surge in phone scams.<br \/>\nThe inquiry follows a string of US government reports tying much of the financial damage from scams to Chinese criminal networks based in Southeast Asia.<br \/>\nThe House Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s Communications and Technology Subcommittee passed the bipartisan \u201cForeign Robocall Elimination Act\u201d on Tuesday,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3366036\/us-congress-seeks-identify-foreign-countries-behind-scam-calls?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS lawmakers are trying to identify which foreign countries are the biggest sources of unlawful robocalls targeting Americans, as Congress steps up efforts to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}