Phone call fraud and spam callers were analyzed in a recent report by Hiya. According to the report, one-fourth of all unknown phone calls analyzed were unwanted, and the average mobile phone user received approximately 14 spam calls per month.
The report compared the rates of phone fraud and spam in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, specifically. Of the three, the U.K. was found to have the highest rate of spam calls (28% of unknown calls), followed by the U.S. (27%) and Canada (20%). For the past few years, the U.K. has held the distinction of having the highest rate of fraud calls in Europe.