---
title: "Can Annoying Robocall Voicemails Be Stopped? Attorney General, Angry Phone Owners Argue Against New Marketing Tactic"
metaTitle: "Fight Over VM Robocalls"
slug: fight-over-vm-robocalls
date: "2017-06-05T20:51:31-05:00"
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sourcePublisher:
  name: Newsweek
  url: bit.ly
sourceArticle:
  url: "http://bit.ly/2rbcaZg"
legacySlug: can-annoying-robocall-voicemails-be-stopped-attorney-general-angry-phone-owners-argue-against-new-marketing-tactic
tags: [AI, FCC, Robocalls]
status: published
---

June 5, 2017

Marketing companies want to leave voicemails on your cellphone—and now one telemarketer is trying to create a loophole to bypass regulations on robocalls by arguing that the messages don’t count as a call if they don’t make your phone ring.

“The delivery of a voice message directly to a voicemail box does not constitute a call that is subject to the prohibitions on the use of an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice,” telemarketing firm All About the Message wrote in a letter to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in late March...