LIONBRIDGE + SHUFFLE VENTURES ABOUT THE CLIENT BACKGROUND The U.S. robocall epidemic reached a record-breaking 30.5 billion calls in 2017, up from 29.3 billion in 2016 1 . In December alone, American consumers and businesses reported 2.8 billion unsolicited or illegal calls, equating to 89.6 million calls daily, 8.6 for every person, and greater scope for fraud and identity theft than ever before. This massive, ongoing spike in robocall volumes—1 billion of them placed by scammers hunting out personal or financial information in November 2017 2 —has given rise to new Federal Communication Commission rules authorizing mobile communications companies to identify and/or block unwanted calls well before they reach consumers. One such company is Lionbridge’s client Shuffle Ventures.

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