Yes, it is a symptom of our collective inability to solve problems-- even trivial ones. Most people I know get between two and ten calls a day, with Id say 3 o

Yes, it is a symptom of our collective inability to solve problems-- even trivial ones. Most people I know get between two and ten calls a day, with Id say 3 or 4 being the median. There are two sorts of calls-- actual spam calls that try and sell you something. And calls to verify a number is active-- these calls just are just silence, but if you pick up, your number will be added to a list of valid phone numbers and sold to spammers. The spammers then take phone numbers and try to match them up with data breeches etc, or just cold call. I don't think most people fall for these fraudulent calls, but the elderly are very vulnerable. I've helped several friends parents get control of their computers back after they willingly gave control of it to someone who who claimed to be from "Microsoft tech support" even though they had a mac.