India Gets Most Spam Calls; Scam Rate Doubled in 2018: Truecaller Report

India Gets Most Spam Calls; Scam Rate Doubled in 2018: Truecaller Report

Caller detection and spam blocking application, tractor, is one of the top choices of apps that can be used to block misleading, scam or spam calls. Based on usage patterns and reporting by users, Truecaller has identified major trends along with a list of the most spammed countries in the world in the context of spam call in the 'Truecaller Insight Special Report' for the year 2018. .

According to the report by Truecaller , India is still the most spammed country in the world, with the highest number of total spam calls. In the case of spam calls per user per month, India is in second place with Brazil, where the position of Pole is taking place, where the amount of spam call doubled in the last one year.

In India, only per-person spam calls have decreased marginally, and 6.1% of total spam calls received by Indians in 2018 were made to spam them, the Crusher report has been highlighted. This number translates to an average 22.3 spam call per user per month.

In India, 91% of these unwanted calls were made by the operator. As we can see, nothing has changed since last year, in which 31 million spam calls were made by only one telecommunications operator. In addition, 2% of the total unsolicited calls are from telemarketers.

About 7% of these spam calls are for brace and duplicate people, and surprisingly, this number has doubled from 3% in 2017. The tractor warns that it is very dangerous and you should be careful while sharing personal details, which can result in any form of financial loss or impersonation.

In the case of scam call, Brazil places the worldwide chart on top with 20% of total spam calls for scamming and the most common calls are about abductions and threats related to the disruption of the electricity. In addition, 10% of spam calls received by Brazilians include prank call for different purposes for harassment from practical jokes. The Latin American countries were worst affected this year, Costa Rica was watching three times more than the number of spam calls received last year.