Your phone rings and you see “unknown number” as the caller ID. You might choose to ignore it, but if you’re waiting to hear back from somebody, maybe a potential job offer or even an installation person, you pick it up. And you soon realize this isn’t the call you’ve been expecting. Instead, it’s a spam call.
This year alone, Americans are expected to get over 52 billion robocalls, which breaks down to approximately 1 billion calls every week, according to YouMail, a company that specializes in blocking them.
And these calls come in all shapes and sizes. You’re likely familiar with the good ole “scam likely” calls, but there are also more sophisticated attacks, that involve spoofing local numbers, as well as those of popular companies, to convince you to give up your personal information and cash. More recently, these attacks have moved over to SMS, where there are phishing text messages that come from your own phone number.
No matter what the calls say, one thing is certain — they need to stop.
Last year, the Federal…
