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Does ignoring robocalls make them stop? Here's what we learned from getting 1.5 million calls on 66,000 phone lines

  • Written by Sathvik Prasad, PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
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More than 80% of robocalls come from fake numbers – and answering these calls or not has no effect on how many more you’ll get. Those are two...

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