It doesn’t matter whether they are mobile or landline, the well-known “robocalls” tend to be a real annoyance for anyone who has a phone. Although in theory the so-called General Telecommunications Law was going to eliminate or at least limit this type of communications, the truth is that in practice this is not happening most of the time.
In this article We will tell you what exactly robocalls consist of, if they really pose a risk to users and how to get rid of them once and for all.
What are robocalls?
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It is important to start by making it clear that robocalls are not dangerous, at least not most of the time. On the contrary, they could be defined as a kind of marketing technique carried out by various companies to test and gauge their potential telephone clients. Only it must be clarified that its operation is not usually the usual one.
For example, when you receive a robocall, it may happen that you don’t hear anything for a while, until a person comes on the phone, or that they directly hang up on you, after a brief goodbye message (sometimes, not even that). What commercial sense can this practice really have? Well, a bigger one than it seems.
With this type of inconvenience for the user, what the companies behind the campaign are doing is take advantage of programmed calls (robotic, to understand us) to know which numbers are working and, above all, if they pick up the phone. Logically, to later carry out different sales campaigns. Consider that many databases are obsolete, and some numbers are never available.
As we said, robocalls are not a risk in themselves, as are other types of telephone, phishing or SMS scams. But that does not mean that they tend to be a nuisance. Luckily, there are several ways to avoid this spam, or at least to limit it as much as possible.
How can you avoid robocalls?
Perhaps the most advisable thing to avoid robocalls is to sign up for the Robinson list. You do not know what it is? Well, a free service in which citizens can register to not be bothered with calls like this. No company is supposed to call or send messages to those who are part of it.
If this measure does not work either (in these cases there are few things that are 100% infallible), you can always file a claim with the Spanish Data Protection Agency. Of course, looking at it from a practical perspective, there are other more comfortable options that do not require as much effort. For example, Download an application to avoid robocalls of this type.
Likewise, you can also block this type of calls, if your phone does not previously recognize them as spam, or directly take an increasingly common measure: Do not answer any phone number you do not know. Although that, of course, does not completely end the annoyance. And you may suffer the risk of not attending to something that is important either.
Also remember that by disabling caller ID, you can prevent spammers from confirming that your number is active and responsive, which is ultimately what robocallers are most often looking for.
