Tech News Desk-Incidents of fraud and harassment through spam calls are on the rise in India as well. There has been a huge increase in the number of spam calls even during the Corona epidemic and lockdown. Meanwhile, spam calls were being made to six lakh 64 thousand people daily from just one phone number. As a result, 27,000 people were harassed every hour. On average, each user receives about 17 spam calls per month, the majority of which are sales and telemarketing. According to Truecaller’s Global Spam (Unsolicited Calls) Report 2021, there are only 202 million spammers in India this year. More than spam calls. Compared to last year, India has jumped from ninth to fourth place in terms of spam calls this year. Hence, this year, the share of all categories of calls relating to the sales of all incoming calls in India has increased to 93.5 per cent. Financial services had 3.1 percent spam calls, two percent annoying calls and the remaining 1.4 percent scammers. In this, fraudsters ask for KYC documents by becoming an executive of a bank, wallet or digital payment service. This year, Truecaller helped 300 million users identify and block 37.8 billion spam calls.
Citing a report from multiple users, Truecaller said that scammers target victims with one-time passwords (OTPs), online sales, lotteries and more to work in a specific way, giving them a remote access Forced to download an app that captures sensitive information. Banks, cards and digital mobile wallets are suffering huge losses. With this, money is withdrawn from bank, card or digital mobile wallet. The countries most affected by spam in 2021 are Brazil, followed by Peru, Ukraine and India. Truecaller received 184.5 billion calls and 586 billion messages worldwide. Of these, 37.8 billion spam calls were identified and blocked. At the same time, 182 billion spam messages were identified and blocked. Brazil receives the most spam calls in the world. Each user in Brazil receives an average of 32.9 spam calls per month. It has topped the list of countries receiving spam calls for four consecutive years. Peru ranks second on this list of spam calls, with an average of 18.02 spam calls per month per user.