Capital One Financial : Stopping robocaller scam rings

Published: 2026-05-13 11:38:10 ET COF

Published on 05/13/2026 at 11:38 am EDT

Financial scammers use numerous phone, text, and digital platforms, making them difficult to detect and stop through conventional approaches. In the case of spoofing, bad actors impersonate trusted brands and logos to create phony emails, websites, text messages and phone solicitations. Capital One has taken other steps to prevent these fraudulent solicitations, including being one of the first banks to work with telecommunications carriers to adopt fee-based services that protect the company's phone numbers from being spoofed. That service alone has allowed Capital One to block several million spoofing attempts against the company's toll-free numbers, branch numbers, and Café numbers since implementation last year. However, these services only help prevent spoofing of the company's information for phone calls and cannot stop scammers from spoofing text messages, email communications, or websites. This lawsuit seeks to create more efficient pathways for stopping those impersonations before they reach and harm consumers.

Impersonation scams have become increasingly sophisticated and pose a widespread threat to industries and consumers alike. Reports have shown the international nexus of scams and the rapidly evolving state of financial crimes. A recent Interpol report stated "with increased global criminal collaboration, fraud is no longer a peripheral threat, it is at the centre of polycriminality, intersecting with organized crime, human trafficking and cybercrime." According to the Federal Trade Commission, imposter scams cost consumers nearly $3 billion in 2024. These operations exploit gaps across industries to scale deception quickly, making them difficult for any one institution to address alone.

"Protecting our customers is at the heart of everything we do," said Chad Miller, Vice President, Customer Protections. "For years we've invested in advanced technology, training, and tools to help detect and prevent financial misconduct. But stopping these scammers requires more than strong defenses. It means going on offense to expose and disrupt the networks that enable these schemes and prevent harm to our customers. That's exactly what this action is intended to do."

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Capital One Financial Corporation published this content on May 13, 2026, and is solely responsible for the information contained herein. Distributed via Public Technologies (PUBT), unedited and unaltered, on May 13, 2026 at 15:37 UTC.