The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act) was signed into law on December 30, 2019.  This new U.S. law will set fines on spam robocallers and requires phone companies to adapt call authentication technologies to deter robocalls.   The FTC and FCC government agencies also have some instructions to reduce the number of received robocalls.

Spam text messages should not be responded to, including the STOP reply.  This lets the sender know that the phone number is legitimate.  Do not click any links in these text messages. These unwanted messages can be be reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by forwarding them to 7726 (SPAM).