Why You Can't Escape the Spam Call Epidemic

Americans received 52.5 billion robocalls in 2025 — 160 per person, per year, most of them offering loans you never applied for. But where do these calls actually come from? This episode of Sidequests traces the full ecosystem: the fake websites harvesting your data, the brokers selling it dozens of times over, the overseas call centers placing millions of calls at near-zero cost, and the reason blocking individual numbers never works. Plus: what you can actually do about it, and why pressing 2 to be removed makes everything worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.