RBC | Tired of scrambling to answer your cell phone only to find your caller is a robocall, or worse, a scammer? You’re not alone. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers have been targeted with more than a billion illegal robocalls each year.
Robocalls are prerecorded messages auto-dialed by a computer. In limited instances, robocalls are permitted: flight cancellations, credit card fraud alerts, and similar important notifications. To be considered legal calls must…