The dreaded robocaller

February 28, 2019

The phone rings and you’ve got a fifty-fifty chance of it being a robocaller. That’s right, nearly 50% of all calls are robocallers and they’ve been on the rise for quite some time. Where are all these robocalls coming from? Kim looks at what’s behind these annoying calls and what you can do about it.

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