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With calls coming to consumers from all over the globe using spoofed and fake phone numbers, it is an impossible task. We must be our own best defense. What We As Consumers Can Do to Help Ourselves. First, if you haven’t already done so, sign up on the do not call registry. In 2003, the FTC started the do not call registry. These robots lie, deceive, and defraud. They steal money. They promise free vacations that don’t exist. And they do all of this by spoofing legitimate phone numbers. Over 60 billion robocalls were placed in the United States in 2019 — 50 percent more than just one year earlier. Most of these calls rely on caller ID spoofing, where scammers.

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