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NewsColony New technology stops spoofing so you don’t miss important calls during coronavirus pandemic CHICAGO (WLS) — You may be missing important financial or medical calls during the COVID-19 pandemic by not answering your phone thinking they are robocalls. The unfamiliar numbers could actually be important calls from your bank, your loan application or your doctor. New technology may eventually help you feel more comfortable about answering your phone again. “Robocalls are the top category of consumer complaints the FCC gets every single year. One particularly bad problem that many consumers have is the problem with spoofed robocall,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Spoofed calls refer to the phone number caller IDinformation being faked. The charirman of the FCC and security experts said during the coronavirus pandemic, they should think about answering their phones again. “We have now mandated that phone companies implement a new technology called ‘STIR/SHAKEN.’ Which essential...