It’s not just your imagination, robocalls are on the rise

We can’t see them, but we hear them and feel them–their ringing and vibrating originating from bodiless non-beings in unknown places. And their numbers are growing. They’ve pierced the shield of the 13-year-old Do Not Call Registry. It’s time for new methods of combating robocalls.

This chart originally appeared in the story The New Weapons in the Fight Against 2.4 Billion Robocalls on Bloomberg.com.

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