There are some robocall scams we see time and time again: Fake IRS agents, cardholder services, and bogus health insurance. Another common one? The “Microsoft Support” scam. This week’s top Answer Bot features a sham support rep and a suspiciously vague computer problem. Enjoy the sweet robocall revenge! Get your Answer Bot recording featured here…

Fooling spam callers nearly every time is just one part of what makes Answer Bots great. “I thought this was a voicemail for a minute, like one of those trick voicemails.” That’s what the telemarketer said before talking with an Answer Bot for almost nine more minutes. This week’s top Answer Bot features advice for…

Hilarious, entertaining, and just the right amount of vengeful. Answer Bot recordings are too good not to share. Each week we’re bringing you another Answer Bot recording from a real RoboKiller user. This week’s Answer Bot features a chill history lesson with a telemarketer. Enjoy! Get your Answer Bot recording featured here by tapping Share…

Smartphone Users Are Finally Fighting Back Against Robocalls Miss an important phone call or answer a robocall? This is the choice most Americans face when their phone rings. But there’s a third option smartphone users are turning to: getting revenge. That’s the choice Noel Rabinowitz made. Noel is building a startup of high end, portable…

Show your friends how good it feels to get revenge on the spammers. When you share the hilarious recordings between your Answer Bots and spammers, you become a RoboKiller! How do you share your Answer Bot recordings? Whenever you see “🚫 BLOCKED & RECORDED CALL” you have an Answer Bot recording. Simply open that call…

With a planned launch in March of 2018, RoboKiller will soon be available for Android in the Google Play Store. Since launching our iOS app in 2017, we’ve been inundated with requests to bring our award-winning call blocking technology and Answer Bots to the Android platform, and we’re just putting the final touches on the…

It’s not hard to understand why robocalls were the number one complaint to the FTC in 2017. A grand total 7,157,370 complaints were made against robocalls and telemarketers. Despite this, the robocall epidemic is getting worse. Some groups estimate 2.9 billion robocalls are made each month, while our research suggests even more – an astounding…

Get ready for the understatement of the year: robocalls are really annoying. Whether you call it a robocall, spam call, or scam call, they’re all the same… unwanted. Each time one of these rings your phone, it’s like a deposit is made into an invisible “anger jar.” For many people, it doesn’t take long before…

Someday in the future, sitting around a holographic fireplace or commuting in a flying Uber, someone will ask, “Remember when we used to get those calls that tried to trick us into giving them money?” That’s what we long to hear. But that’s not today. That future is still far, far away. There’s no mistaking…

Neighbor spoofing is spam callers’ newest trick. Here is how you can beat them at their own game. As apps like RoboKiller get better and better at blocking unwanted spam, telemarketing, and robocalls, it only makes sense that the bad guys would get more sophisticated. They’re trying to separate you from your hard-earned dollars.  Neighbor…

Received a Spam Text? Here’s What You Need to Know To Stop Them. Spam texts. The newest enemy in the growing fight against unwanted phone spam. If you have felt as though spam texts are on the rise, you are not mistaken. Each year, nearly 4.5 billion unwanted spam texts flood mobile phone numbers in…

Why Do I Receive Robocalls? The Answer Might Surprise You If you have ever answered a call on your smartphone only to be taken aback by a pre-recorded message, you’re probably wondering, “Why do I receive robocalls? What can I do about them?” Receiving an unwanted robocall, especially one that is illegal, can be a jarring…

Huge News! RoboKiller Now Blocks Unwanted Spam Texts Though the fight against spam calls is still very much at large, a new enemy has emerged: spam texts. Each year, nearly 4.5 billion unwanted spam texts flood mobile phone numbers in the United States. Though text spam used to be an occasional annoyance, new technology has made…

How to Create a Custom RoboKiller Answer Bot (and WIN!) Hey Robokiller users! Not too long ago, we launched a new feature that lets you create Answer Bots of your own. Beginning with version 3.2, all RoboKiller users can now personalize your revenge on all the annoying, harassing, and downright dangerous spammers trying to waste…

Tis the season! Not that fun one, though. Political robocall season is upon us. Politics are a sensitive subject these days. It can be hard to avoid the conversation. To make matters worse, political figures have implemented a new strategy to get their campaign messages to us directly – political robocalling. Political figures and parties…

Spam Calls 101: Important Facts Everyone With a Phone Should Know Are you sick and tired of receiving a portion of the 2.9 billion spam calls smartphone owners in the United States receive each month? You are not alone. Spam calls are not only annoying and intrusive, they are a massive threat to the privacy of…

Important Information about RoboKiller & Your Verizon Voicemail UPDATE: We have great news for all of our Verizon customers! We have been able to resolve the issue with Verizon Voicemail. What this means for you: we will immediately begin moving all Verizon RoboKiller customers back to their usual Verizon voicemail, which will work just like it…

Robocalls 101: The Complete Guide to Understanding Robocalls & How to Stop Them Do you know how to stop robocalls from taking over your smartphone? In this post, you will learn: What are Robocalls? Why Do You Receive Robocalls? What Laws Protect You from Robocalls? Why The Things You’ve Been Doing to Block Robocalls Won’t…

Do you know how to stop robocalls on your iPhone? Robocalls are not only annoying, they are dangerous to your personal privacy and well-being. Each day thousands of robocalls are made nationwide each second to unassuming Americans, interrupting busy days, family dinners, and your sense of security. Despite the long list of iPhone functionality, effective…

Why you need to know how to stop robocalls on your cell phone. Did you know nearly 50,000 people search for terms such as “stop robocalls” and “how to stop robocalls on cell phone” per month on Google alone? That’s because robocalls are arguably one of the most annoying aspects about our mobile phones. They interrupt…

“I don’t mind getting spam or telemarketing calls” – Said No One, Ever. Let’s face it, we all hate spam and telemarketing calls. They’re a nuisance in our daily lives – and it feels like they’ve been around since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Even phone scammers hate receiving them! If you’ve ever received…

Consumers beware: this phone scam is Equifax’s newest security problem. Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies in the United States, informed the public late last week of its widespread data breach affecting 143 million consumers nationwide. If you have a credit report there is a good chance that you’re not only at risk…

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…

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 do you stop unwanted calls? It’s probably your 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. All types of unwanted calls have one thing…

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 calls about that cruise sweepstakes 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…

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 an…

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, and not 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 U.S. Treasury inspector general still receives an average of 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 for…

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…

Downloading a Robocall Blocker App is the Best Way to Stop Robocalls. Here’s Why.  If you have a robocall problem, you’ve likely looked into a robocall blocker app as a solution. Robocalls, whether they are legal or illegal, are difficult to stop. That’s why a robocall blocker app can provide real value in many ways….

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…