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During Coronavirus we must take silver linings where we can. A new study shows during the pandemic, spam phone calls – a non-medical epidemic – have declined 55% nationally with some states seeing as high as a 76% decrease.
AllAreaCodes.com today released a study, Coronavirus Causing Decline in Spam Calls, after analyzing one million consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 8.
Nationally, the number of complaints has steadily decreased every week. March 8 saw a 15% decline, March 22 a 23% decline, and the most recent figures week of April 12 jumped to a 55% decline.
The 10 states seeing the largest decrease in spam are D.C. (76%), California (72%), Washington (72%), Montana (71%), Virginia (71%), Louisiana (71%), Oregon (69%), NY (68%), Arizona (67%) and New Hampshire (66%).
While the slowing of spam calls likely correlates with the economic shutdown, Americans who receive spam calls remain encouraged to file a complaint with the FTC to continue to combat this issue facing our country.
Spam emails are up though.
that fake NJ police organization keeps calling. its a scam. hang up