Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18 (Brian Fung/Washington Post)

Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18  —  Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.

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