Robocalls have become an unavoidable part of daily life, flooding voicemails with unwanted messages from unknown numbers.

But there are steps you can take to reduce or eliminate these intrusive calls, and legislators are taking action to protect consumers.

"It's very frustrating to me because I'm in sales so I don't know if a customer is calling me or if it's, you know, one of the spammers. So, I'm missing calls now because I don't want to keep answering the phone for these random robocalls. So, it’s very frustrating," one person said.

How robocall blocking works

Matt Mizenko from Nomorobo , a company focused on blocking unwanted calls, explains how their technology works to identify and stop spam calls.

Nomorobo started in 2013 after it was entered into the FTC's robocall blocking

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