BOISE, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced phase two of Operation Robocall Roundup, focusing on four major voice providers to combat illegal robocalls.

The Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force has directed Inteliquent, Bandwidth, Lumen and Peerless to stop transmitting suspected illegal robocalls.

"Idahoans are frustrated with scammers swindling families by pretending to be the IRS, Social Security or any other legitimate entity," said Labrador in a release. "My Consumer Protection Division works hard to educate people on how to avoid scams, but we need to hold telecom providers accountable for allowing that illegal traffic."

The new phase targets larger companies with significant roles in the U.S. telecom ecosystem. These companies reportedly transmit hundreds of th

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