Robocalls Surge 20%, Topping 4 Billion in May, 3rd Straight Monthly Record, YouMail says

U.S. robocalls totaled 4.06 billion in May, up 20 percent from April and the third straight monthly record, YouMail said Thursday. It said Americans received 15.2 billion robocalls in the first five months of 2018, a 27 percent increase from the year-ago period, despite government and industry efforts to crack down. "The barrage of robocallers clearly has consumers not answering their phone for unknown numbers, or using apps to block calls, which in turn is causing the robocallers to call even more to try to get through," said CEO Alex Quilici. "It's sad, but the phone call now appears to be in a slow motion death spiral."