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December 3, 2019 02:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CDCCHSfruv0/people-worldwide-have-received-more-than-26-billion-spam-calls-this-year
People Worldwide Have Received More Than 26 Billion Spam Calls This Year
Do you feel you have been receiving more spam calls of late? You are probably not wrong -- or alone. From a report: The volume of spam calls has grown by 18% globally this year, according to Truecaller. In its annual report published Tuesday, the Stockholm-based firm said users worldwide received 26 billion spam calls between January and October this year -- up from 17.7 billion during the same period last year. The United States remains the eighth most spammed country, where the volume of robocalls increased by 35% this year. In a separate report earlier this year, Truecaller estimated that 43 million Americans were scammed last year and lost about $10.5 billion. The growth is despite the efforts local carriers and authorities have made in the country. Brazil again topped the list for the most spammed country. The culprit behind the increasingly growing spam calls in the country are its own telecom operators and internet service providers. Truecaller said that in the last 12 months, calls from the operators have increased from 32% to 48%. [...] One of the takeaways from the report is just how complex it is to understand the nature of these spam calls. There is no common thread -- or culprit -- behind these calls. In some markets, such as South Africa (ranked sixth in the report), spammers are mostly making fraudulent tech support calls and conducting job offer scams. Peru, ranked second, and Indonesia, ranked third, have seen spam calls explode in the nation. In Peru, users received more than 30 spam calls in the month. Most of these calls were made by financial services that are looking to upsell credit cards and loans.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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