858 Robocalls Placed Every Second, Most Of Them From Debt Collectors

Chris Morran writes on Consumerist: “According to the latest YouMail National Robocall Index, some 2.3 billion robocalls were placed in January alone. That comes out to around seven robocalls for every single person in the country, or 858 robocalls placed every second of every day.” Most of these robocallers are calling to collect debts. In fact, out of 20 most frequent robocallers in the January Index, 15 of them were debt collection calls with approximately 175 million calls in a month. That’s a lot of annoying, unwanted pre-recorded calls. (consumerist.com)