When Bad Things Happen to Free Services
At YouMail, we believe that no one should ever have to pay to block robocalls! That’s why we don’t charge – and don’t want to ever charge – for the fr...
Will Your Business Survive Robocalls?
It’s always felt like robocalls call everybody all the time, but it wasn’t until June of 2015 that YouMail released the Roboc...
Interesting Robocall Survey
The folks at Clutch surveyed a good-sized batch of consumers about robocalls. The findings are well-worth reading: https://clutch.co/call-centers/ans...
Robocall Index Snapshot – April 2018
Here are some details culled from the YouMail robocall index for April, 2018. There was an estimated 3.36 billion robocalls placed in April 2018, a...
Why Apple iPhones Are Robocall Magnets
Robocallers are a massive problem in the U.S. At YouMail, we estimate there were 30 billion robocalls in the past year, so it’s no wonder that they’r...
IRS Scam Robocalls
There is an epidemic of "IRS Scam" robocalls - automatically dialed calls from people claiming to be from the IRS. The truth is the IRS doesn't call,...
Audio Fingerprints To The Rescue
At YouMail, our latest patent-pending innovation is called audio fingerprinting. News 6 in Orlando did a great job explaining to their viewers what i...
What’s The Point of All Those Robocalls, Anyways?
At YouMail, we put out the YouMail Robocall Index. which is a monthly estimate of robocall volumes. The estimate for January 2018 shows that the robo...
Robocalls Are Out Of Control
The Washington Post has a great article talking about how robocalls have gotten completely out of control: How Robocallers Outwitted The Governm...
30 Billion Robocalls in 2017
The robocall epidemic rolls on. Our best estimate is that there were 30 billion robocalls in 2017, an all-time record. To put that in perspective, t...