An eye-watering 55 million scam calls have been blocked by the Australian Communications and Media Authority since new rules came into effect for telcos in mid-December.

And they’re the calls NOT making it to our phones.

“It is a relentless challenge,” Fiona Cameron, chair of ACMA’s scam telecommunications action taskforce, told Neil Mitchell.

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