US Robocalls Spike to Almost 1 Billion in November, YouMail Says
Monthly robocalls to U.S. phones jumped 43 percent in November to 980.8 million, estimated YouMail in its latest National Robocall Index released Thursday. The company said it provides intelligent cloud-based telecom services and compiles the data based on callers blocked…
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and/or reported as spam by millions of its subscribers. New York continued to be the most-targeted city, with 45 million robocalls received, followed by Atlanta (42.1 million), Los Angeles (38.8 million) and Houston (29.7 million), it said. Columbus, Ohio, was the city generating the most traffic with 40.7 million robocalls originating there, followed by Atlanta with 19.8 million. Fifteen of the top 20 robocallers were debt collectors, with a “major credit card company,” and “company trying to collect on student loans” leading the way, YouMail said. Congressional efforts to curb robocalls, including through a Do-Not-Call Registry, “have been largely ineffective,” said the company, which noted robocallers can place thousands of calls in seconds from overseas, outside U.S. jurisdiction. It noted the FCC adopted an order last summer (see 1506180046) that increased potential fines for "spammers and spoofers" and allowed telcos to offer "robocall-blocking services to consumers."