Unwanted calls are on the rise

A Survey by SurveyMonkey found that 46% of Americans reported receiving spam phone calls on their cell phone every day, with another 24% receiving them multiple times per week.

Spam calls impact everyone evenly. Eighty percent of Democrats got spam robocalls at least weekly, as did 79% of Republicans. They impact men (76%) and women (78%), old (85%) and young (66%), rich (72%) and poor (71%).
Nobody is safe, nobody can escape them, and for many it seems nothing can stop them.

The top scams of any given time are a reflection of anxieties; auto warranty scams are big today, and were last highly popular during the heights of the Great Recession, when economic anxiety roiled the country. As Americans take on debt to ride out the pandemic, calls preying on those anxieties remain popular.

The calls often originate overseas, where the FTC lacks jurisdiction. The Do Not Call list doesn't work for robocalls on your cell phone, it just prevents live telemarketers from calling you. Even if it did work, the robocallers are already flaunting the law, and there's little reason they'd respect the registry. They're able to thrive on the US phone system because of a fundamental flaw in the structure of the grid.
"Caller ID was never verified," Foss said. In the 1980s when caller ID was first implemented, there was only one phone company — AT&T — and as they were able to verify customers, caller ID was implemented the same way that a return address on an envelope was, where a person could put anything.
Then AT&T was broken up, and deregulation meant anyone could become a carrier, and the FCC laws that effectively protect the privacy of you as a phone user are equally capable of protecting bad actors, as well. As a result, caller ID is meaningless yet still relied on, which makes it easy for scammers to exploit.

The National Do Not Call Registry was created to stop unwanted sales calls. It’s free to register your home or cell phone number. If you’ve already added your phone number to the Do Not Call Registry and are still getting a lot of unwanted calls, odds are the calls are from scammers. Read about blocking unwanted calls to find out what to do about them. If you answer one of these calls, hang up and report the call to the FTC.

During the COVID-19 pandemic and variants, scammers WILL TRY TO take advantage of you. They might get in touch by phone, email, postal mail, text, or social media. Protect your money and your identity. Don't share personal information like your bank account number, Social Security number, or date of birth. Learn how to recognize and report a COVID vaccine scam and other types of coronavirus scams.

Remember if any law enforcement or Social Security Department nor your bank will call you to ask you the information that they already know and if they really need to talk to you I am sure they know where to find you.

What is your social security number? I do not have a social security number I am on asylum.

What is you bank information? I do not have a bank account

what is your birthday and adress? I forgot my birthday and I am homeless

If you reply to their questions the way I advice you and be friendly, they will never call you again because to them you are now worthless. Great!!!!! let them, think that all day!!!

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