According to the Federal Trade Commission, complaints about imposter robocalls totaled nearly 600,000 in fiscal year 2021, with scammers frequently posing as representatives of the Social Security Administration or the Internal Revenue Service. The FTC also said that nearly three million people signed up for its Do Not Call Registry Data Book, bringing the total… Continue reading The State of Scam Calls
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How to Minimize Those Annoying Robocalls
We’ve all experienced an increase in those annoying robocalls we get on both our landlines (wireline residential phones) and our cell phones. Robocalls are phone calls that contain prerecorded messages, often showing up on your Caller ID screen with a fake phone number making it appear to be a local call (referred to as number… Continue reading How to Minimize Those Annoying Robocalls