Does ignoring robocalls make them stop? Here's what we learned from getting 1.5 million calls on 66,000 phone lines
- Written by Sathvik Prasad, PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
New research aims to give phone companies tools to help curb robocalls.Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
More than 80% of robocalls come from fake numbers – and answering these calls or not has no effect on how many more you’ll get. Those are two...