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Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will be Scams by Next Year, Says Report

posted by chromas on Saturday September 15 2018, @05:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the http://www.archersecuritygroup.com/dont-fall-double-digit-phone-scam/ dept.

MrPlow writes:

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By next year, nearly half of the mobile phone calls we get will be scams, according to a new report from First Orion, a company that provides calls management and protection for T-Mobile, MetroPCs, Virgin Mobile and others.

The percentage of scam calls in US mobile traffic increased from 3.7 percent last year to 29.2 percent this year, and it's predicted to rise to 44.6 percent in 2019, First Orion said in a press release Wednesday.

The most popular method scammers use to try to get people to pick up the phone is called "neighborhood spoofing," where they disguise their numbers with a local prefix so people presume the calls are safe to pick up, First Onion said. Third-party call blocking apps may help protect consumers from known scam numbers, but they can't tell if a scammer hijacks someone's number and uses it for scam calls.

"Year after year, the scam call epidemic bombards consumers at record-breaking levels, surpassing the previous year and scammers increasingly invade our privacy at new extremes," First Orion CEO Charles Morgan said in the press release.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/almost-half-of-us-cell-phone-calls-will-be-scams-by-next-year-says-report/

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @08:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @08:23PM (#735400)

    Sure, but this isnt about the gov. Maybe we do something about the scammers first, then precedent is set and common sense returns to the general public and we go after the criminal aspects of the government.

    They may have ded clared nefarious activities as legal but i refuse to recognize them as such.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DrkShadow on Saturday September 15 2018, @09:05PM

    by DrkShadow (1404) on Saturday September 15 2018, @09:05PM (#735421)

    Honestly I was thinking of the huge corporations and advertisers that gather this data into one database for the scammers and corporations to steal, buy, and sell, time and time again. All the while, people just keep clicking "I Agree", and the US just keeps allowing it.