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.
