FCC Warns of Possible Rise in Student Loan Robocalls

Voice service providers should be vigilant about an uptick in “the scourge of illegal robocalls” as the Biden administration moves forward on its student loan forgiveness program, the FCC Enforcement Bureau said Thursday. “Each time the Department of Education has extended the forbearance, fraudsters and unscrupulous marketers have taken advantage of these changes to flood American consumers with robocalls about student loans,” the bureau said: “These calls typically state that the caller is informing the recipient that the payment suspension will end or that a petition can be filed on their behalf to get a certain amount of their loan ‘dismissed.’”