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The Daily Crime

"I want everybody to be able to answer their phone"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Robocalls drive us all crazy. But now some people are fighting back and making money in the process. Jennifer Titus and Lauren Powell at WTSP in Tampa tell us about their investigation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up. I want everybody to be able to answer their phone and not have to silence every other call.

0:05.9

And how much money have you made total now? Uh, 22,500. For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. You're

0:11.9

listening to The Daily Crime. Robocalls can be more than just an annoyance for many of us.

0:18.6

They interrupt our lives on a daily basis,

0:24.3

but some folks are fighting back and making money doing so.

0:25.6

One day I just checked my email,

0:28.4

and I had an email from a lawyer for this one company saying that they, yeah, we'll give you a thousand bucks.

0:31.5

I mean, basically they were, we got your letter,

0:35.7

we deny everything you said,

0:39.2

but we're willing to give you a thousand box to settle this. And I was like, oh, it's game on. This is my first one. This is 3,000. I should

0:45.7

be settling another this week for between 8 and 10. So 8 and 10,000. So $22,000. All because you were had enough with these robocallers.

0:58.0

Had enough.

0:58.9

Had enough.

0:59.9

Wanted to make them rethink it.

1:02.6

Wanted to hit him in the wallet.

1:03.6

Make them pay.

1:05.1

I'm joined by Lauren Powell, Investigator, producer at Ten Tampa Bay.

1:07.8

And Jennifer Titus, investigative reporter also at 10 Tampa Bay News.

1:11.3

So before we talk about how people are making money fighting robocalls, your investigation on this

1:16.7

started with a discovery that some of these calls are coming from a pretty interesting place.

1:21.5

We started looking into robocalls. We wanted to see what's kind of being done to stop these

1:26.5

annoying calls. Everybody gets some,

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