Californians receive over 120 spam calls each year, a new study shows

According to a recent study, over two-thirds of Americans report receiving more spam calls in 2024 than in 2023. It found that Californians receive 4,813,580,300 robocalls annually, or about 123 per person. Over a third of Americans have received a political spam call.

“‘Donate $1 to support Ted Cruz,'” Jackie Nelson read from her phone.

She says she receives spam calls and text messages at least five times a day.

“I get it all the time,” Nelson said. “I was just trying to get rid of everything.”

They appear on her home screen when she wakes up and she spends a lot of time deleting them.

“I have to delete it here and then it goes somewhere else and I have to delete it there and then I have to delete it from my email,” Nelson said of the endless cycle.

According to the FCC, while there is a national Do-Not-Call registry list, political campaigns are exempt from that list. If the person who received the message or call no longer wishes to be contacted by replying “Stop,” they should no longer be spammed by that number.

If you receive a message you didn’t ask for, the FCC says you can report the sender by forwarding the text message to 7726 or “spam.”