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How can you stop robocalls?

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Meet the robocallers

Every second, Americans receive 62 robocalls. Right before the pandemic began, we set out to find a serial robocaller.
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Why are robocalls such a big problem?

One of out of every 6 American adults loses money every year from phone scams, costing victims a total of $10 billion, according to Hiya State of the Calls Report.
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We bought 16 new cellphones, and most started getting robocalls before we even used them

Americans got 58.5 billion robocalls in 2019 -- the most ever. Our investigative team bought 16 new phones all over the U.S. and measured when they got spam calls.
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Woman cites robocallers in grandmother's death

A woman's warning about robocallers.
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Why most robocallers will never be caught

The overwhelming majority of robocallers will never be caught. Here's why.
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How robocallers get away with it

The FTC needs your help in this fight.
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Woman blames robocallers in grandmother's death

"It...cuts me to my core that I didn't stop everything that day and go to her."
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What you can do to stop robocalls

They're annoying. They're non-stop. Here's what you can do to stop robocalls.
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How do robocalls work?

We set out find out who are the robocallers, who are the victims and what can be done to stop the calls.
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We tracked down a serial robocaller. This is what he said.

This company called one number more than 1,000 times.
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We bought 16 brand new cell phones. They started getting robocalls before we even used them.

Even buying a brand-new phone doesn’t stop the robocall problem. The TEGNA investigative team bought 16 new cell phones across the country. Here's what happened.