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    Your phone just got more protection against spam calls. But it's not safe yet

    by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times May 20, 2022 3 minutes
    On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission took another step to identify and potentially block spam calls, closing one of the big loopholes in its enforcement efforts.

    If you haven't been warned recently that your car warranty has expired, that something has gone badly wrong with your Social Security account or that you are in big trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, then you must not have a phone.

    Those are just a few of the most popular messages delivered by robocallers, who often hide behind spoofed numbers to fool you into answering. RoboKiller, a company that makes technology to identify bogus calls, estimated that Americans were deluged with spam calls in 2021 — a 32% increase over 2020. Spammers rang Californians' phones

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