This leaves a voicemail claiming to be from the debt-buying company Portfolio Recovery Associates.
The caller goes on to say that they will be in the office until 11 p.m. This caller tried 14 million times, leaving a voicemail claiming to be a debt collector from Wells Fargo.Īffecting 12 million, this caller leaves a voicemail from a man or a woman claiming to be from Santander Consumer, a car loan and automotive refinancing company. It made calls an estimated 14 million times. This caller leaves a voicemail claiming to be a courtesy call from the cable and communications network Comcast. With a volume of 37 million calls, this number leaves a voicemail from a woman claiming to be from Capital One Bank calling to discuss an "important business matter." Here were the top 10 robocallers by volume in June. 1 most common robocall, Quilici said, is always about interest rates. to estimate how many people across the country could be affected by robocalls. YouMail then extrapolates and compares this data against the approximately 324 million phone users in the U.S. Once YouMail is alerted to a robocaller's phone number, the number is entered into their database, where their users can contribute additional information such as comments or additional audio clips. The safest thing to do when an unknown number pings your phone is to just let it roll to voicemail.Įvery month, YouMail collects audio clippings from the voicemails robocalls leave on their 10 million users' phones. The problem, he said, comes in when scammers cover their tracks by disguising their caller IDs with legitimate phone numbers, a technique called "spoofing." For instance, the phone number listed for Wells Fargo was confirmed as authentic by a Wells Fargo spokesperson, but scam callers could potentially use it to hide where they are actually calling from.Īll of the numbers on the top 10 list, Quilici said, are risky. According to Quilici, about 29 percent of the robocalls made in May were scams, with the rest being telemarketing, payment reminders or debt collection reminders.
Making things more complicated: Some of these callers are legitimate, if no less annoying. With the rapid improvement of phone caller ID – which, on most cellphones, can now warn you of an incoming potential scam call – and the proliferation of apps designed to screen for fake calls, the number of robocalls that actually get picked up on the first try is declining, according to YouMail CEO Alex Quilici. Most of the time, these robocalls are after people's money. Since February this year, the number of robocalls made to phone users across the country has risen more than 40 percent, it says. Robocalls have been on the rise in the United States: An estimated 4.1 billion robocalls were made nationwide in June alone, according to data compiled by YouMail, an app that aims to prevent robocalls by playing an out-of-service message from your phone. Wondering whether you should pick up that random number that just called?Ĭhances are, it's a robocall, and it may be a scam.
Corrections & Clarifications: This article has been updated to clarify that some of the most frequent robocalls include legitimate payment and debt collection calls.
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