According to YouMail, a call filtering service, Americans spend more than four hours each year answering spam calls. That’s a lot of wasted time—especially considering the potential risk of falling for a scam. Are calls from unknown numbers ever worth answering? Generally speaking, you’re better off ignoring most of them, but I’m here to walk you through which calls are actually worth picking up and how to avoid scam callers before they steal more than your time.








