Post by robeiae on Feb 15, 2019 9:57:55 GMT -5
Remember the National Do Not Call Registry, how it was supposed to end--or at least severely curtail--the barrage of spam calls people received on a daily basis? How's that worked out, some fifteen years later? I don't know about you, but I get tons of robocalls on my home line, all disguised with phony local numbers and/or phony names of individuals. I get them on my cell phone, too, though not nearly the same volume.
Here are the national numbers: www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/fcc-robocalls-report/index.html
And people are getting scammed out of a ton of cash. Estimates from 2016 say consumers lose $350 million a year to phone scams (the IRS one alone accounts for nearly 10%).
The best fix: never answer your phone.
Here are the national numbers: www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/fcc-robocalls-report/index.html
Nearly half the calls made to US cell phones in 2019 will be spam, according to a study by First Orion referenced in a Federal Communications Commission report Thursday.
Ninety percent of those calls will have familiar caller IDs, but there isn't an effective way of identifying a call as spam before answering.
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YouMail, a third-party tracking organization, estimates that more than 47.8 billion robocalls were made in 2018, a 57% increase over the previous year. In October CNN reported that these calls are getting more risky for consumers as technology to manipulate voices is becoming more advanced and available.
Ninety percent of those calls will have familiar caller IDs, but there isn't an effective way of identifying a call as spam before answering.
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YouMail, a third-party tracking organization, estimates that more than 47.8 billion robocalls were made in 2018, a 57% increase over the previous year. In October CNN reported that these calls are getting more risky for consumers as technology to manipulate voices is becoming more advanced and available.
The best fix: never answer your phone.
