We want to help your phone act the way it should. You make the calls you want, and you receive the calls you want. Nuisance calls are attacking your mobile phones, and for some people, it is a never-ending marathon of figuring out ways to stop them from calling or texting.
Category Archives: Scam Alert
New FCC Spam Data Helps Tackle Increasing Spam Calls
Spam calls are becoming an increasing problem in the United States, and they are knocking on our cell phone screens. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), unwanted spam calls and texts are the number one consumer complaint in America. In 2014 alone, the FCC received 215,000 complaints about automated calls. The good news is that the FCC has started releasing these complains for the public.
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Americans Lost $8.6 Billion in Phone Scams: Learn to Protect Yourself
We recently conducted a study via the Harris Poll, to find out how fraud calls in the United States were effecting American wallets.
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Mexican Phone Scam Spotted
Residents in Mexico beware, as even jail cells can't keep prisoners from scamming you! In a recent article by Bloomberg, prisoners are smuggling mobile phones into their cells, scanning public phone books, and making thousands of fraud calls a day to get money. These calls can range from ransom payments for make believe kidnapping or bank deposit to claim prizes that are not real. A successful deception earns an average bounty of 5,000 pesos ($385).
How the Word ‘Spam’ Came To Be
We hear the word spam when referring to mass amount of e-mails pinging our inboxes, advertisement newspapers in our mailboxes, and of course, annoying telemarketing calls plaguing our cell phones. But have you ever stopped to think how this strange word came to be associated with unwanted information?
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