For about a solid week or two, I felt like everywhere I went, someone commented how they “kept getting tons of spam calls” — without knowing that I had been experiencing the same thing. Every 20 minutes, it seemed, I was getting a text from “the courthouse” or a call from a number that my phone detected as potential spam.
I consider myself fairly tech-savvy — perhaps thanks, in part, to being a zillennial — so I can usually identify spam and ignore it. But I have to admit, some of the texts, emails and calls I’ve received more recently seemed somewhat legit.
After further research, I was able to discern what was spam (read: all of it) and ignore the messages. But ever since, and even in the past, I’ve wondered: What’s up with this major uptick in spam calls?
According to experts, there’s a phone habit many of us have engaged in that’s super unhelpful, and you only need to do it once to feel the burn.
The Phone Habit That Increases Your Risk of Spam — And Why
