It's much easier than you think to start a robocalling scam campaign (I could make robocalls to millions of people for cheap right now if I wanted to)

Some less legitimate services, or those that aren't so diligent in their compliance, "may turn a blind eye" to a robocalling scam campaign, Tyrrell said, at least until they get grief from the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) or FTC.

Tyrrell told Business Insider that it's unlikely that search engines like Google Search can regulate which robocalling services turn up in their search results. So, if you want to find a service that will let you embark on a scamming campaign, you can find one.

So far, there's no way to stop bad robocalls. So telecom companies and government entities are finding ways to at least control them.

For one, carriers have recently made their robocalling detection services free of charge. Those services can actively show you if a call is potentially a scam, like the notification I got above when I received a possible scam call while writing this article. And it's companies like TNS and Metaswitch that power these scam robocall detection services.

And in May 2019, the Senate approved the "TRACED Act," which imposes stiffer penalties on bad robocallers, and is pushing carriers to implement technology dubbed "STIR/SHAKEN" by May 2020. This technology is designed to ensure that a call you're receiving is actually coming from the phone number you see on your phone's called ID. Thus, you'll trust your called ID again.