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Force telecommunications companies to actively prevent scam telephone calls

Submitted on Friday 5th February 2021

Rejected on Friday 12th February 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Force telecommunications companies to actively prevent scam telephone calls

Petition Details

Pass legislation to force telecom firms to implement technologies to prevent and detect scam call centres and automated fishing systems many of which use fake generated numbers.

Additional Information

The impact of these calls in elderly and vulnerable people is appalling. This form of fraud is something that needs to be stopped.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign these petitions which calls for the same actions:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/559402
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329688

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