"The Spam Via Call And Sms"-An Awarness Announcement to all of The People
By Raktim Bar
“Spam calls are similar to email spam in the sense that they're a form of unwanted communication. Spam calls and text messages are distributed in bulk and in most cases unsolicited, which means they occur without any prior request"
N.B:Illegal spam calls are far more dangerous than they are a nuisance, simply because they have no regard for any government communication laws in the United States. Though the contents of the call may vary, they are all calling to steal something from you.
1.Why is this happening?
A:The phone has almost become an extended part of our body, and we use it to communicate with the rest of the world. The frightening part is we’re always accessible because of it, and this is something that spammers and scammers take advantage of.
In 2019 we(Truecaller) have been able to help our users block and identify 26 billion spam calls, which is an increase of 18% compared to last year. Furthermore, we have helped identify 116 billion unknown calls, which is a 56% increase compared to last year.
What are the trends we(Truecaller) are seeing?
In total Truecaller helped identify 8.6 billion spam SMS globally.
1.Who are the top spam callers?
6.South Africa:Scam calls continues to be a big threat for consumers in South Africa (39%). The most common scams are:
8.United States O f America:Robocalls are talked about all over the U.S., and it’s no wonder. Apart from the media reporting and people complaining about this issue, we have seen a clear trend in our own data showing robocalls increasing dramatically. Comparing with last year, the number of robocalls has increased from 7% to a staggering 35% – which means that more than every third spam call a user gets is a robocall.
Earlier this year we also found that 43 million Americans were scammed over the phone – and 10.5 billion USD was lost to scammers in 2018. Read more here: https://truecaller.blog/2019/04/17/truecaller-insights-2019-us-spam-phone-scam-report/. Our data further shows that close to every third spam (32%) call you get is of fraudulent nature in the U.S.
Another big trend is scam calls are a big portion of all the top spam calls in Russia. We have seen a pattern that scams calls have been tagged as companies/individuals pretending to call from banks trying to lure them to share sensitive information.
10.Colombia:Today, Colombia is the tenth most spammed country in the world. The majority of spam calls come from operators (39%) and financial services (29%,) followed by a big chunk of scam calls (22%.) In our data, we can see many of these fraudulent calls are ‘insurance related’ – meaning someone pretending to be from an insurance company and wanting to sign you up for something and charge you.
Also, Bogota has been ranked as the world’s worst city for sexual harassment (source: Plan International) – and during the past two years we have been receiving a lot of feedback from women saying that harassment calls has worsened in the country.
A Suggestion To all of You that I want to refer This Google Verified phone app : Download the app And please try to use it.We know that For some few years there happened many scam like "In Bank Case:A huge Amount of some users are deducted from their bank because of this spam calls.And also i want to suggest that please use Phonepe,Paytm,GooglePay,Freecharge etc apps with very carefully,when you use this bank related apps on that time try to close the another apps which is running in the background of your phone.Lastly i will advice you that Install only the Google Verified apps from Playstore,And in the given link download the call verifying app,which is Google verified app.
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