Spam calls made up 18.3 per cent of calls from unrecognized numbers in Canada.
A new study suggests there's been an uptick in phone scams in Canada, such as those involving federal agency impersonation or air duct cleaning.
Canada lags behind the United States, the study found: the average Canadian received three spam calls per month in the early part of the year, compared with 14.5 in the United States. "You're getting a lot less of the high-volume businesses that are trying to operate within the laws, within the CRTC guidelines, and you're getting a lot more of those who are just ignoring the laws completely."
Canadians also received high volumes of air duct cleaning scam calls, which the report noted were nothing new, but are largely unheard of outside of the country. "At some point, someone tried this campaign … and they must have had enough success that it just exploded. They just kept going and other spammers started copying them and it's just sort of stuck."
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