Neowin News Feed for: Robocalls

Robocalls to U.S. consumers fell to 4.3 billion in February, down 4% from January

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:50:01 +0000

Robocalls in the United States fell in February but only because the month had fewer days compared to January. Daily averages were actually higher in February than they were in January. Read more...

YouMail: Americans received 50.5 billion robocalls last year, higher than in 2020

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 07:44:01 +0000

The robocall blocking firm, YouMail, said that Americans received a whopping 50.5 billion robocalls in 2021. This figure was down from 2019 but up from 2020. 42% of the calls were scam calls. Read more...

Verizon expands its spam call filtering app's capabilities with iOS 14

Jay Bonggolto — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 04:44:01 +0000

Verizon has introduced a fresh capability to its spam call filtering service that allows customers to silence spam calls. The new feature is initially available to iOS 14 beta testers from today. Read more...

Block Robocallers with 1-Year of Call Control Premium at 33% off for only $19.99

News Staff — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:41:23 +0000

Give those persistent Robocallers the boot with the AI-Based tool that's blocked over 1 Billion calls. Now, via Neowin Deals you can get a year of Call Control Premium for only $19.99 today! Read more...

Neobytes :) Hacker gets his own back on scammers by flooding their phone line with robocalls

Mina Esapa — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 09:24:01 +0000

After receiving a voicemail from a suspicious source claiming to be the IRS, Reddit user YesItWasDataMined developed an ingenious way to get his own back: flooding their line with robocalls. Read more...