According to a new report from Hiya, global spam calls grew by an astounding 325 percent to 85 billion over the last year worldwide. "As spam calls continue to skyrocket globally, the demand for protection from unwanted phone calls has increased drastically," said Alex Algard, CEO of Hiya, in a statement. Hiya analyzes more than 12 billion calls per month and uses proprietary algorithms to identify the calls that are unwanted. The full global report can be viewed here. In the U.S., the spam rate is 10 percent and there are approximately seven monthly spam calls per user, according to the report.

Source: Fox News February 28, 2019 15:33 UTC