You ’re not the only one who has noticed an uptick in annoying robocalls apparently coming from your same expanse codification .
Last week , the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) release theirbiennial study to Congresson the Do - Not - Call Registry . The latest installment of thedatabookfeatured more information about complaints than late year , including a breakdown of how many calls were made by a live caller and how many were robocalls .
The composition shows that in 2017 the FTC received 7.1 million complaint , which is 1.8 million more complaint than it received the former year and doubly as many ill as it welcome in 2015 . Out of the 2017 complaint , 2.5 million were about human spammers , while 4.5 million were about robocalls . The FTC is now averaging more than 375,000 complaints about robocalls per calendar month .
According to the FTC , the most plebeian categories of ailment were refer to calls regarding debt reduction ; vacation and timeshares ; warranties and protection plans ; medical and prescriptions ; call option falsely claim to be from companies , government , or friends and family ; and name with no message or dropped calls .
The memorandum mentions advancements in Voice Over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) that tolerate telemarketers to call more people for low monetary value . New software also wee it easy for companies to interpolate call ID information , making it unmanageable for agencies or law enforcement to locate callers and making it sluttish to win over you that you are find a call from someone you make love . This year , the FTC notice an addition in report about spoofed numbers from the same field code as the target company .
The Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) also regulate junk e-mail calls , but it receives importantly fewer complaints — about 185,000 from August 2016 to August 2017 . Both agencies are trying to crack down on the plague of teleselling shout . The FTC has frequent several challenges over the last few years , encouraging developers to make software that find and collects data on robocalls . Earlier this year , theFCC approved rulesthat will help oneself phone companies bar robocalls .
Hopefully , these federal efforts will mean fewer bot will be calling you in the new year . But there ’s no enjoin what new engineering science will serve telemarketers maneuver around freshly implemented safeguards .
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