Stop Robocalls: The Law is Limited but You Are Not Receiving unwanted robocalls from “cardholder services”, “sweepstakes winners”, or even the “IRS”? You’re not alone. Robocalls effect roughly 13 million consumers per day nationwide. That’s a lot of wasted hours, interrupted dinners, and potential dollars lost to fraud.  As a consumer and a likely recipient of…

Do you know how to stop spam calls from flooding your phone? If not, now is the time to learn: What are Spam Calls? Why Do You Receive Spam Phone Calls? Why Traditional Methods of Blocking Spam Calls Don’t Work How to (Really) Stop Spam Calls, Forever What are spam phone calls? Spam calls are,…

The Hurricane Harvey Scam is considered to be the aftershock of the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey. Amid stories of bravery and compassion, a wave of phone scammers have begun flooding Harvey survivors’ mobile and landline phone lines, attempting to rob them of anything they have left to their name. These robocallers, posing as insurance…

How to stop unwanted calls – it’s nearly the first thought if you’ve ever received a nuisance call from someone you didn’t want to hear from. And if you don’t immediately wonder how to stop them, you are definitely plotting ways to get back at whoever interrupted your busy day. There are many different types of unwanted calls, but…

Ever wanted to block spam calls on Sprint, MetroPCS, or Cricket Wireless? It’s possible! The #1 robocall blocking app, RoboKiller, never stops working to provide the best protection from telemarketers and robocalls, and we are super-excited to now be able to support Sprint, MetroPCS and Cricket Wireless iPhone customers. With this expansion of the RoboKiller…

The thought of winning a free cruise is exhilarating. Imagine a travel agent calling you up in the middle of the day to inform you you’ve won a cruise line sweepstakes you didn’t even know you entered. All you need to do is enter your credit card information and social security number to reserve your…

Receiving more calls about that cruise sweepstake you didn’t enter for? The IRS still calling demanding payment about your taxes from last year? How about the past due debt you don’t owe? If you’re feeling as though the amount of phone scams you’re receiving is on the rise, well, you are right.  Although technology such…

As apps like RoboKiller get better and better at blocking unwanted spam, telemarketer, and robocalls, it only makes sense that the bad guys would get more sophisticated as they try to separate you from your hard-earned dollars. One of the latest scams is the Local Call scams, which is technically known as the NPA-NXX scam….

Once you’ve realized you’ve been targeted by a spam caller, do you know what you need to do to prevent it from happening a second time? Learning how to report spam calls are just one of the highly recommended solutions designed to reduce the risk of continuous spam threats. Although reporting these scams cannot put…

Imagine an alternate universe where instead of spam callers wasting your time, you waste theirs. A world where spam callers, arrogant debt collectors, and annoying robocallers spend countless hours talking to pre-recorded messages, instead of talking to you. Picture their embarrassment when they realize they’ve mistakenly been talking to a robot for five minutes, missing…

The Do Not Call Registry Along With a Spam Blocking App Can Stop Telemarketers and RoboCalls Forever The National Do Not Call Registry is a do not call list that legitimate companies are required to honor. If you add your phone numbers to the list you will stop legitimate telemarketers from calling your submitted numbers….

If you have ever received a call from a debt collector, you understand just how unpleasant the experience can be. Debt collectors don’t care about you or your situation. They don’t care if the debt is in error, or if you fell on hard times; they want you to pay either way (after all that…

Waiting by your phone for an important call – we’ve all been there. Whether you’re anxiously awaiting a job offer, curious if your date from last weekend will call you back, or need to know if the offer on your dream home was accepted, receiving phone calls are a necessary form of communication in daily…

You might have recently caught this article about how rock star Ed Sheeran got rid of his phone, mostly because he was getting annoying calls that weren’t adding any value to his life. While it might be nice for Ed Sheeran to ditch his phone, unless you’re a rock star and have a bunch of…

Although it may sound like a thing of the past, phone scams are still a major problem. The US Treasury inspector general still receives an average of between 9,000-12,000 complaints per week. With the increase of smartphone accessibility in the United States, the amount of phone numbers available has expanded drastically. This growth is optimal…

Telemarketers and scammers don’t call to annoy you. Don’t get me wrong, they annoy the heck out of you, but that is not why they call. They call because it makes them money (actually, it makes them a whole lot of money). By understanding how economics can stop spam calls, you will learn why this is only…

You should absolutely take steps to prevent unwanted calls; just don't expect fewer spam calls because you signed up for the Do Not Call Registry. So why should you sign up for it? Because it will reduce the number of legal calls from telemarketers. I know you are mad the FCC and the government don’t just...