New report highlights ‘rampant’ phone spam problem; 73.6M unwanted calls per day in Q1
A new report from Seattle startup Hiya highlights the ongoing problem of phone fraud and spam calls. The report found that during the first quarter of this year, nearly 25% of all unknown calls globally were flagged as spam or fraud — that’s 73.6 million per day.
This number called me at about one in the morning when I was sleeping, he told me that I hadn't paid for something and that there was something wrong with my card... but I didn't do anything with it, and so he keeps calling me about the card and he's really gotten on my nerves with this...
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