There has been a Cambrian explosion of scams in the last few years

https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/scam-inc-from-the-econ...

Your information was recently sold.

Perhaps elections have consequences.

along with all the other data that may be snarphed, or phished, consider adding voice profile generation to your threat model, if you do engage at all, modify your dialogue to avoid generating critical voice prompts that will append to the scamburger helper profile.

It happens world wide, I wonder if there is any kind of environmental effect, as a result of the insane amount of waves circulating all at once

Weather, sleep?

A year or two ago I had a spate of scam calls that peaked at 4 to 6 per day for a few weeks then dropped off to one, maybe two per day. Best defense is to turn on do not disturb but allow you contacts to ring. T-mobile tags suspicious numbers as scam likely or spam and Google also introduced a call screener recently. Still get scam calls but at least they are maybe one per day.