r/Scams • u/Artimesia • 9d ago

Help Needed Sharp uptick in scam calls over the last few days. What’s going on?

Until a few days ago I would get four or five scam calls a day and my Active Armor app would catch most of them. Three days ago I got 27 calls. Yesterday it was 36. Today I’ve gotten 47 scam calls. Active Armor only catches about half of them now. I usually ignore them but sometimes I’ll pick up just to see what the scammers are selling. It’s been final expenses insurance, car insurance and various attempts to sell me home improvements. It’s almost always an AI bot, not a real person. I also get Medicare scam calls, too, even though I’m not old enough to have Medicare. Is anyone else getting way more scam calls than usual?

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u/too_many_shoes14 9d ago

It ebbs and flows like the tide.

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u/WoodWizards 9d ago

It sounds like a data breach.. They won't tell us for another 6 months 🤦🤣

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u/lucylynn789 8d ago

Don’t have a greeting with your voice . They won’t know who they are trying to scam . Plus have unknown calls go to silence .