spam calls

[indigo_rose99]

 It was late November of last year. I kept getting so many spam calls I thought I must be going insane. So... I started collecting data on how many of my incoming calls are spam. 

So that week was unusual. But then the number of calls went back to the typical about 4 a week.

So, being me with my fondness for data, I kept collecting the data. And sometime after the new year... I felt again like the number of spam calls was increasing. Was I crazy? Here, you look.


Each point in this chart is the number of spam calls I got that week. Last year it was 4 calls a week. This year, in the phase I call "two" it is almost 8 calls per week. Yes, this is really statistically different. And it feels different in the real world of how many times I do not answer the ringing phone. Further it kinda looks like the number of calls in "two" is going.... up. The most recent point is this week, and it is only Tuesday! I have four more days of this week to get spam calls!

Todays Special Call was officially from someone claiming that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against me and an arrest warrant has been issued. It is a lie, of course, the IRS does not call anyone. I reported that one to the FCC.


Update: Evidently I'm not alone. 
Update 2: Friday of the same week, I am now up to TWENTY SIX (26!!!) spam calls this week. Look back at the chart and it is OFF THE CHART!!! I really hope this is a outlier and not the continuation of a trend that it appears. 

Comments

[livingdeb]

Our credit is really good and this is our last chance to get better rates! Our last chance until ten minutes later, at least. When my phone lists a number as local but describes the caller as "out-of-area," I know the caller is lying scum on top of whatever else they're doing.

We're thinking of turning our ringer off. But we're not good at checking for messages, either. :-(

[indigo_rose99]

Today one spam caller dialed me TWICE in less than a minute. If you know how DoNotDisturb works on many cell phones, that will break through most sound blocks people put on their phones. Gah!