With 22 Spam Calls Per User Per Month, India Ranks 2nd In World For Telemarketing Spam In 2018

India still hasn't gotten rid of its spam problem with smartphones, despite TRAI even attempting to crack down on the practice.

That's partly why Trucaller is still such a popular app in India. Now they've once more released data regarding just how much spam they fielded in 2018.

Take note however, these numbers will obviously be restricted by only the number of smartphones with the Truecaller app installed. It still portrays a really annoying problem we still have however.

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In 2018, Truecaller users around the world made 21.7 billion calls, double the number last year, and sent 3.4 billion texts. Unfortunately, it also identified and blocked around 17.7 billion spam calls of the 74.1 billion they scanned. That's a little over 81 percent of all calls made with the dialler in a year.

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These spam calls could be anything from simple telemarketers to heinous scammers, communicating with you on average once every four calls. And usually, India leads the pack with regards to the number of spam calls in a year, but this time around the winner is Brazil.

The south American country saw an average of 37.5 spam calls per user per month this past year. India came in second with 22.3, and Chile third with 21.9.

Even more interesting, is the breakdown of the 132 million unique spammers Truecaller discovered this year. A South African telemarketer made a cool 6.9 million calls from just one number in 2018. But that's not nearly so impressive when held against India's record, which was 43 million calls from a single local telemarketer in the year.

Additionally, another local spammer sent 700 SMS messages from one number throughout the course of the year.