According to reports, 44.56% of all calls in 2019 will be spam. First Orion Corporation, the company that provides spam call filters to carriers, reports that 29.2% of calls were spam in 2018, a dramatic increase from the 3.7% in 2017. "Neighborhood spoofing" has also increased dramatically. This is when scammer's disguise their phone numbers to have the same area code as the recipient. The company hopes that machine learning can eventually be used to detect and block these calls at a network level, however they claim that the problem is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

// via Instagram According to reports, 44.56% of all calls in 2019 will be spam. First Orion Corporation, the company that provides spam call filters to carriers, reports that 29.2% of calls were spam in 2018, a dramatic increase from the 3.7% in 2017. "Neighborhood spoofing" has also increased dramatically. This is when scammer's disguise their phone numbers to have the same area code as the recipient. The company hopes that machine learning can eventually be used to detect and block these calls at a network level, however they claim that the problem is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.