Anyone Else Suddenly getting tons of RoboCalls?

They just want to help you with your student loan debt and they also know that your auto warranty is about to expire. They also know about your credit card debt and want to help with that as well. Such good Samaritans :-)

death penalty for robocallers!
i activated the blocking. i am still getting a few a day.

I already don't answer unless I know the # and let them leave a message. I also have missed multiple legitimate calls. :/

I get a few - I've just accepted it as the reality of having a home phone line.

no :3

Not 50 a day but I get about 2-3 a day for about a year now.

Lately I've been getting robocalls from numbers with New York City or Washington DC area codes, and they are leaving voicemail (which is rare for robocalls, in my experience)... and the voicemail is in Chinese. (I recognize the phrase "ni hao").

Good times.

I wish IOS had the option to not allow any calls unless they are in my contacts list. That would make things much better.

Must be an american thing. I don't even know what a robocall is...

Yup, at least 3 or 4 a day on my home line, but that's because some asshole that owes money to a bank gave this number as reference and the few times that an actual human called they simply seem to fail to understand that that person doesn't live here.
There's also the occacional call from people trying to call the city's municipality, apparently my number is close enough to be misdialed.
Thanks from providing me with an excuse to complain about it.

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Prior to this John Oliver episode I was unaware that robocalls are that much of a problem in other countries. Germany has pretty strict laws when it comes to privacy and protecting customers. I don't think that I get more than one / month.

When I got a "new" number from my service provider, it turned out it used to belong to some old woman who seemed to sign up for every scam possible. From day one & onward I've been getting non-stop calls & texts from robocall scams, all addressed to someone who isn't me at all. Blocking every single number hasn't stopped it, so I had to mute all notifications & just use my phone for emergencies. But to answer your question, I guess no, since it isn't exactly "suddenly" for me ;^ ).

Nope. But I get calls for the guy who had this number 5 years ago, calls for the court which is one digit different, calls for the gas company which is one digit different, calls for the security company call center which is... (you get the picture). Apparently basic comprehension in the difference between a 7 and a 1 is hard for some people, and my phone number has 3 of those. Lucky me. And a lot of the time the people are so rude, phoning me and asking for someone I have never heard of, then acting belligerently to me when I refuse to give them my name or let them talk to this person who I have never heard of. Dude, you don't deserve to know who you are talking to just because you dialled this number, piss off. Literally no one I want to speak to ever phones me on my home number, but it comes with the internet line, so I'm stuck with it.
Oh and I also get calls from 'microsoft technicians'. But I enjoy those...it's fun to waste their time leading them on whilst robbing them of the chance to con someone's granny.

Every couple hours or so it shows on my notifications "99+ calls blocked". I block every single one of these punks, and a couple still pass through on a daily basis.

i get 5-10 a day on my cell phone, at least, all with my same area code and prefix and random last 4 digits. 99% of them get blocked by android spam blocking so it never actually rings my phone but I see them in my incoming call history. They usually don't leave a voicemail but the ones who have (or if I accidentally answered it) are typically one of:

1) The IRS has a warrant for your arrest and you are going to prison
2) Home mortgage scam
3) Refinance your credit cards
4) A lady speaking in Chinese with soft piano music in the background (I don't speak Chinese)

Phone scammers here don't use this cyberpunk bullcrap. They call you directly, like real men.

Yeah, I'm surprised other people are getting them. When I wake up in the morning or I check my phone after work I usually have about 4.

Got one today and blocked it. Used to get 1-2 a month before GDPR kicked in, but much less than that now.

50 per day? That's a bit much. Usually it's 3 or less, from the following:

-someone trying to sell solar panels
-someone trying to sell Medicare stuff for old folks or pain relief medical devices
-some Hindu guy claiming he's from Microsoft and my computer has a virus
-debt relief services
-the Red Cross, who can never get enough tasty blood
-or the occasional political robocall

No suddenly about it; I've been getting almost nothing but robocalls for the last 5 months, at least. The thing about blocking them, though, is that a lot of them use actual phone numbers. My parents keep getting them from my grandmother's number, but she's blind; she doesn't make phone calls. People keep calling her back to curse her out for her solicitation calls, and she has no idea what's going on. It's awful.

I got five or six calls on my home phone today from Indian scammers pretending to be from "Windows Technical Department" or "Telstra (Australian telephone operator) Technical Department" but that's been happening for 9 or 10 years now. They are robo-dialled and a scammer gets assigned after I've said hello a couple of times and the dialling computer has determined that I am not an answering machine.

Its on the rise again. I thought they had a national "do not call" list that you can put your # on?