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They call every day. Early in the morning till late at night.
They are robo calls. Those recorded calls any of us can get and most of us have received on our home or cell phones. Asking us to take a survey or informing us we've won something.And if you think they're calling more frequently these days than they have in the past, you're right.
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According to Youmail, a private company that tracks robo calls, just last month those calls hit an all-time high in the US of 2.6 billion up nearly 10 percent from July. That's 986 calls ringing per second across the country.
For just the DC area code 202, there were 19 million robo calls dialed in August. The ones marketing or trying to sell a product are against federal law.
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