to estimate how many people across the country could be affected by robocalls. YouMail then extrapolates and compares this data against the approximately 324 million phone users in the U.S. Once YouMail is alerted to a robocaller's phone number, the number is entered into their database, where their users can contribute additional information such as comments or additional audio clips. The safest thing to do when an unknown number pings your phone is to just let it roll to voicemail.Įvery month, YouMail collects audio clippings from the voicemails robocalls leave on their 10 million users' phones. The problem, he said, comes in when scammers cover their tracks by disguising their caller IDs with legitimate phone numbers, a technique called "spoofing." For instance, the phone number listed for Wells Fargo was confirmed as authentic by a Wells Fargo spokesperson, but scam callers could potentially use it to hide where they are actually calling from.Īll of the numbers on the top 10 list, Quilici said, are risky. According to Quilici, about 29 percent of the robocalls made in May were scams, with the rest being telemarketing, payment reminders or debt collection reminders. Making things more complicated: Some of these callers are legitimate, if no less annoying. "You just get a couple of those people to fall for it, and that pays for an awful lot of calls." "What we can tell is that (robocalls) are extremely cheap to make," Quilici said. But this doesn't necessarily mean that phone call scams are becoming less successful. When the first calls don't make it through, more attempts have to be made. This might explain the sudden uptick in robocalls. With the rapid improvement of phone caller ID – which, on most cellphones, can now warn you of an incoming potential scam call – and the proliferation of apps designed to screen for fake calls, the number of robocalls that actually get picked up on the first try is declining, according to YouMail CEO Alex Quilici. Most of the time, these robocalls are after people's money. Since February this year, the number of robocalls made to phone users across the country has risen more than 40 percent, it says. Robocalls have been on the rise in the United States: An estimated 4.1 billion robocalls were made nationwide in June alone, according to data compiled by YouMail, an app that aims to prevent robocalls by playing an out-of-service message from your phone.
Wondering whether you should pick up that random number that just called?Ĭhances are, it's a robocall, and it may be a scam.
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Watch Video: How to stop those annoying robocalls, once and for allĬorrections & Clarifications: This article has been updated to clarify that some of the most frequent robocalls include legitimate payment and debt collection calls.
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