Robocalls are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic started

[Jacob Siegal]

If you feel like robocalls have picked up significantly in recent weeks, you are not imagining it. Citing data collected by YouMail over the last twelve months, CNN reports that Americans received more than 4.6 billion robocalls in February, which was a 15.1% increase over January despite the fact that February was three days shorter.

Back in 2019, Americans received a total of 58.5 billion robocalls, which was a 22% increase over 2018. That number dropped sharply to 45.9 billion in 2020 as the novel coronavirus pandemic shut everything down, including most of the robocallers. But now that the world has started to come back online, robocalls are picking up, and we're now on pace to receive 51.5 billion robocalls before the end of 2021. One pandemic replaces another.

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