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This is something I found on Google News that should be of high interest.

By Chris Welch

Mobile spam calls have been a nuisance for years, but over the last few months, it’s felt to me like there’s been a surge of them. I get between four and six calls daily, and a quick survey of friends shows that I’m not alone. Every waking day brings with it a new barrage. Robocallers have upped their game by masking their spam with local, genuine-looking phone numbers. Sometimes their nonsense is amusing – like when you get a threatening voicemail about your impending arrest over owed back taxes – but the...