I just received my fifth email this month on the same topic.
In the email, my friend informed me he’s canceled his landline service and has chosen to use only his cellphone for voice communication because of the abundance of robocalls and scams he was receiving.
Unfortunately, this will not solve his robocall problem.
A robocall is a phone call with prerecorded messages. All robocalls are illegal, unless you have agreed to be called.
The reason we receive so many of these calls is that technology has made it easy and cheap for robocallers, and there’s money to be made by scammers.
Robocalls are the No. 1 consumer complaint to the Federal Trade Commission. According to the FTC, the agency received 4.5 million robocall complaints in 2017, an increase of 132% over 2016.