Which was the first Sci-Fi story to predict obnoxious "robo calls"?

Question

I saw a post on the internet today that said, "None of the sci-fi stories I read as a kid predicted a future where everyone was afraid to answer their phone due to constant calls from robots."

This made me laugh, but it got me thinking, with such a large body of sci-fi stories in existence, surely one of them predicted obnoxious, automated "robo-calls" being made for advertising or scamming purposes.

So which was the first sci-fi story to predict such robot automated calls?

Edit: adding Laurel's comment here since I think it is rather relevant:

"The year to beat is 1983, which is when robocalls actually existed. Ideally, we'd find something before 1976/1977, which is when Wikipedia says they were first described in non-fiction"

Answer 1

The Last Letter by Fritz Leiber (published in Galaxy Science Fiction June 1958) has all types of intrusive advertising, including scheduled commercials broadcast via telephone (which the characters find enjoyable rather than obnoxious):

Bells jangled. Krumbine grabbed up two phones, holding one to each ear. Potshelter automatically picked up a third. The ringing continued. Krumbine started to wedge one of his phones under his chin, nodded sharply at Potshelter and then toward a cluster of microphones at the end of the table. Potshelter picked up a fourth phone from behind them. The ringing stopped.

The two men listened, looking doped, Krumbine with an eye fixed on the sweep second hand of the large wall clock. When it had made one revolution, he cradled his phones. Potshelter followed suit.

"I do like the simplicity of the new on-the-hour Puffyloaf phono-commercial," the latter remarked thoughtfully. "The Bread That's Lighter Than Air. Nice."

Krumbine nodded. "I hear they've had to add mass to the leadfoil wrapping to keep the loaves from floating off the shelves. Fact."

He cleared his throat. "Too bad we can't listen to more phono-commercials, but even when there isn't a crisis on the agenda, I find I have to budget my listening time. One minute per hour strikes a reasonable balance between duty and self-indulgence."

Also:

Potshelter nodded absently. "I can remember back before personalized delivery and rhyming robots," he observed. "But how I'd miss them now—so much more distingué than the hives with their non-personalized radio, TV and stereo advertising. For that matter, I believe there are some backward areas on Terra where the great advertising potential of telephones and telegrams hasn't been fully realized and they are still used in part for personal communication. Now me, I've never in my life sent or received a message except on my walky-talky." He patted his breast pocket.

Dystopian advertising is a common theme in futuristic sci-fi, but not a lot of stories use phone calls in particular.

Answer 2

Captive Audience by Anne Warren Griffith (published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1953) has essentially every commercial product emitting intrusive advertising, including the telephones:

First had been the telephone company, now one of the fattest accounts on the Corporation’s books. They had held out against MV for years, until he, Fred, hit upon the idea that sold them — a simple message to come from every telephone, at fifteen-minute intervals throughout the MV broadcasting day, reminding people to look in the directory before dialing information.

However, rather than receiving intrusive phone calls, the telephones just emit ads unprompted. Also, lots of people are depicted as enjoying these intrusive advertisements, and "Restraint of advertising" has been declared unconstitutional.