Money Digest: Scam Warning: Never Respond If Someone Calls You And Uses These Phrases

There it is, another “unknown number” on your phone. Who could it be? While it’s possible the call is legit, there’s also a good chance there’s a scammer on the other end of the line. After all, there are a lot of scam calls made daily, and phone scammers have tricked people out of an outrageous amount of money. Just how common are scam calls? According to a 2022 report by the National Consumer Law Center and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, there are more than 33 million attempts to defraud Americans via scam robocalls every day. That adds up to more than a billion attempts by scammers to connect with potential victims every month in the United States alone.

Read more here.