Phone scams impersonating Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) were the most common type of phone scam in the UK in the fourth quarter ...
Mar. 10, 2025First, the good news: residents of Germany receive relatively low volumes of phone spam: an average of just 3 unwanted calls per person ...
Mar. 6, 2025The fourth quarter of 2024 was a busy time for scammers. Unwanted phone calls — both illegal fraud calls and annoying nuisance calls — ...
Mar. 3, 2025Spain has a phone spam problem. Not only do Spaniards receive a high volume of unwanted calls each month, but of those calls, a high ...
Oct. 22, 2024If it seems your phone has been ringing more often, you’re not imagining things. Political calls have surged as the US presidential ...
Oct. 7, 2024Residents of the UK receive fewer spam calls than those living in other European countries: an average of only 3 per person each month. ...
Sep. 26, 2024“Tech support scams are real and they’re causing enormous consumer injury: hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, and that’s just ...
Sep. 25, 2024The United States receives an above average number of spam calls compared to other countries, and the most common phone scams relate to ...
Sep. 9, 2024“A question I get asked a lot is ‘Is the phone call dead?’ I can guarantee you the answer is no. But, I can say that the voice channel has ...
Jun. 1, 2024Tax scams are among the most popular phone scams in the world (see Top 10 phone scams of 2023). There are IRS tax scams in the US, HMRC tax ...
Mar. 26, 2024Immigration and visa scams are on the rise in the UK.
Mar. 7, 2024The Joe Biden voice-clone robocall encouraging voters not to vote in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire was an eerie reminder that ...
Feb. 27, 2024If you receive a call telling you there’s a problem with a package delivery, think twice before you answer any questions or press a button ...
Feb. 13, 2024In Germany, residents are being hit with the “Hallo mama” scam.
Dec. 13, 2023Open enrollment for health insurance happens around this time every year in the US, generally from late October through early December. And ...
Nov. 30, 2023To illustrate the power of generative AI — and how it can be misused by scammers — Hiya’s Chief Product Officer James Lau cloned the voice ...
Nov. 27, 2023Peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Zelle have made paying friends and family quick and easy. The problem is, those ...
Oct. 5, 2023Phone scammers like to catch their victims off guard. They jolt their victims with upsetting information and push them to act before they ...
Aug. 31, 2023We write a lot about phone scams that target consumers, but the Google Business Profile scam primarily affects business owners.
Aug. 24, 2023Update: On July 31, 2024, Hiya released Hiya Registration, a free one-stop-shop for businesses everywhere to register their numbers. It ...
Aug. 2, 2023Just when consumers were breathing a collective sigh of relief as the vehicle warranty scam fades, there comes a different vehicle-related ...
Jul. 31, 2023Some phone scams relate to recent news events or target specific demographics. Then there are the scams that have been around for years ...
May. 30, 2023Insurance phone scams are a growing problem today. These scams typically involve bad actors posing as insurance agents or representatives ...
Mar. 1, 2023The Medicare scam is an all too popular ruse that plagues the voice channel; this harmful deceit was crafted specifically to hurt the ...
Feb. 1, 2023As an individual consumer, you probably appreciate it when your caller ID identifies incoming calls with a “Spam Risk” label or similar ...
Jul. 22, 2022Spoofed cell phone numbers allow calls from one number to be displayed as coming from another number. Spoofing occurs when callers ...
Apr. 15, 2022Update: On July 31, 2024, Hiya released Hiya Registration, a free one-stop-shop for businesses everywhere to register their numbers. Learn ...
Dec. 30, 2021The hardest part of generating successful outbound calls is getting clients to actually pick up. In this day and age when the average ...
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