--- title: 5 Facts About Robocalls That'll Make You Hate Them Even More description: A telecom service called YouMail launched the National Robocall Index, with facts showing how big of a problem robocalls are. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Technology - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-11-12T18:33:28.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T07:32:46.000Z' section: Technology tags: - phone service - robocalls - Scams word_count: 239 canonical: https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![151112_EM_Robocalls](https://img.money.com/2015/11/151112_em_robocalls.jpg) On Thursday, the telecom service [YouMail](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/youmail-launches-national-robocall-index-to-help-consumers-identify-and-block-top-sources-of-automated-calls-300177467.html) launched something called the National Robocall Index, which tracks both legal and illegal monthly robocall traffic throughout the country. Among the disturbing findings released in the initial study: • Roughly 1 out of 6 calls received nowadays by the average consumer is a robocall—meaning a call with a computer-generated message rather than a real live person on the line. • 683 million robocalls were placed in the U.S. in October. Disturbingly, that huge number actually represents a *decrease of 21%* compared with September. • New York City residents receive the most robocalls in the nation—60 million in October, more than double that of Chicago and nearly four times as many as San Francisco. • Nearly 9 million robocalls were placed in October from a single phone number—in the 262 area code in southeastern Wisconsin—the highest in the nation. • Among the top five most frequent kinds of robocalls is a scam that attempts to dupe people into paying high connection fees in order to bail someone out of prison. (The overall top category of robocalls is one originating from a debt collector.) Earlier this year, the FCC approved a package that will make it [easier for consumers to block robocalls](https://money.com/robocall-blocking-text-spam-fcc/?iid=sr-link1) directly via their phone service provider. But based on the information above, clearly the battle against robocalls has a long way to go. ***Read next: [Our National Robocalling Nightmare May Soon Be Over](https://money.com/robocall-blocking-text-spam-fcc/)*** ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Technology", "item": "https://money.com/technology/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Smart Home", "item": "https://money.com/smart-home/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "5 Facts About Robocalls That'll Make You Hate Them Even More" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/", "name": "5 Facts About Robocalls That'll Make You Hate Them Even More", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-11-12T18:33:28.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T07:32:46.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "5 Facts About Robocalls That'll Make You Hate Them Even More", "articleSection": "Technology", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/11/151112_em_robocalls.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1557, "caption": "151112_EM_Robocalls" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-11-12T18:33:28.000Z", "description": "A telecom service called YouMail launched the National Robocall Index, with facts showing how big of a problem robocalls are.", "abstract": "A telecom service called YouMail launched the National Robocall Index, with facts showing how big of a problem robocalls are.", "@id": "https://money.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-scams/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-16T07:32:46.000Z", "wordCount": 239, "keywords": [ "phone service", "robocalls", "Scams" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Technology", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Home automation", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation" ] } ] } ] } ```