Date uploaded: 2023-01-09 19:30:43
Recorded phone pitches don't reach people at random, experts say. If the caller - or a recording - asks you to hit a button to stop getting the calls, you should just hang up, according to the FCC.
More than 2 million individual consumer complaints have been filed in the past eight years with the Consumer Help Center from the Federal Communications Commission, which handles a wide range of telecommunications service and billing issues. Unwanted calls are the single largest source for those complaints, according to a USA TODAY analysis.
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