India Gets Most Spam Calls; Scam Rate Doubled in 2018: Truecaller Report
Dec. 18, 2018According to thisreportby Truecaller,India is still the most spammed countryin the world with the highest number of total spam calls. In terms of spam calls per user per month, India stands second with Brazil taking the pole position, where the volume of spam calls has doubled in the last one year.
Of these unwanted calls in India, 91% were made by the operator itself. As we can see nothing has changed much from the last year, in which 31 million spam calls were made by just a single telecom operator. Additionally, 2% of the total unsolicited calls are fromtelemarketers.
In terms of scam calls,Brazil tops the worldwide chartwith 20% of the total spam calls meant for scamming and most common calls are about abductions and threats related to electricity disconnection. Further, 10% of thespam callsreceived by Brazilians include prank calls for a range of purposes varying from practical jokes to harassment.Latin American countries are among the worst hitthis year, with Costa Rica seeing more than thrice the number of spam calls it received last year.
