For example, school delays, appointment reminders, flight cancellations, and other automated messages are all meant to make our lives easier. consumers now receive more than 4 billion robocalls every month.īelieve it or not, many robocalls are legal, and there are some situations where people find them helpful. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received over 7 million complaints about scam calls in 2017 alone, and that is just scratching the surface. While phone scams and annoying sales calls are nothing new, we have seen a huge increase in their frequency over the past few years, and most of these are of the automated robocall variety. I receive upwards of 6 or 7 of these calls a day, and I know some people endure even more than that.
You may have noticed a huge uptick in robocalls and phone scams lately.
