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Spam Calls Getting Common Globally

 

Spam calls such as those from banks telling about new loan offers else competitor operators deceptively extracting information while cajoling to change over to other operators have become rampant in India as the country is among the most spam call receiving nations of the world, states a report.

 

According to Truecaller the caller ID app, Kenya ranks among the twenty most spam call receiving countries, the origin of the calls being mostly from fraudsters. Over 9 calls from each set of ten that Truecaller and consumers flagged were from con men, Truecaller notes.

 

Spam calls actually refer to frauds through phone wherein the scammers apply fake schemes for stealing cash out of unsuspecting people. Consumers of Truecaller get a mean of 7.7 scam calls on a monthly basis which are described as nuisance calls and financial services calls. Businessdailyafrica.com posted this on the Web, July 13, 2017.

 

In comparison, consumers within Brazil and USA receive some twenty spam calls on a monthly basis, whereas within Kenya, the mean has been found as approximately 7 calls. Within India, telemarketing and telcos were behind a very large number of scam calls, accounting for 13% and 54% respectively.

 

Investigating further it was found that certain general categories which are impersonated in spam calls are operators, political parties or issues, debt collection, health matters, insurance, financial services and telemarketing.

 

The research found India to be among the top spam call affected countries since such calls primarily relate to financial services and operators that claim as giving free data alternatively any number of calls. The Direct Marketing Association of South Africa in South Africa facilitates its inhabitants to join the catalog of non-contactable numbers. This catalog is given the description of National Opt-out Database.

 

Over 250m telephone users worldwide are resorting to applications like Truecaller for being able in viewing caller IDs as also knowing who makes the call, no matter whether their phonebook contains the number. The application further facilitates end-users towards blocking calls or SMSs while notify about spam messages and scam callers, letting rest of the end-users eschew such scammers as well.

» SPAMfighter News - 7/18/2017

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