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Jacob Siegal
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Over the last few years, spam calls have evolved from occasional nuisance to endless irritation. The calls tapered off a bit during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, but they have since come back in force, with more than 4.6 billion robocalls in the US in February alone. But as infuriating as it can be to receive dozens of unwanted phone calls every week, the scourge of fraudulent FaceTime group calls sounds even more annoying.
As spotted by Ars Technica, iPhone and iPad owners have been complaining about unwanted FaceTime group calls since at least last year. Unlike the spam calls that offer people insurance or claim to be from Microsoft support, these calls seem to be from pranksters dialing up to 31 random numbers at once and waiting for the chaos to unfold. If anyone hangs up the call, a different number calls back right away. Everyone on the call gets stuck in a cycle that could last for several minutes, as the only way to stop the call entirely is to manually block each number.
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A crazy new spam scheme is plaguing iPhone users – and there’s no way to stop it originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 11:35:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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