To put this into perspective, The Star reported that through Macau phone scams, Malaysians have lost a whopping RM287.3 million as of 2020. The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) reported that they received over 2,000 complaints on financial scams between January and September. Saving your savingsīesides financial services, telemarketing and scam-related calls were also frequent based on Truecaller’s report. Marked contacts are labelled according to categories such as scammers, gambling, property agents, and more. The same number-identification feature spills over to SMS messages and WhatsApp texts as well.
The profiles of a genuine number and a scam If you find that annoying-because who doesn’t-Truecaller uses its wide database to either block or indicate on your screen a suspicious number when you receive a call. Truecaller’s caller ID screen / Image credit: TruecallerĮach Malaysian is likely to receive over three of these calls per month with shady individuals trying to get them to sign onto some sort of loan, insurance package, or investment opportunity. This isn’t surprising because with the pandemic stripping many Malaysians of their income and savings, Truecaller believes that these establishments aimed to capitalise on the people’s financial vulnerability. The most number of calls received by Malaysians this year come from financial service companies. Their 2021 report on spam and scams gives us an insight into how Malaysia has fared this year and how badly spam calls have affected us. Their app has over 300 million users worldwide and has detected and blocked 37.8 billion fraudulent calls in 2021 alone. Swedish caller ID developer Truecaller aims to help prevent this. The ones that do however can lead to devastating effects like causing families to lose their savings. However, not all spam is designed to steal your money.
That means about 90% of the country’s population are prime targets for spam and scam calls. In case you don't want them displayed in there, it is possible to deactivate the application's integration with the phone contacts.There are about 29 million Malaysians who own smartphones. this is available from the "Discover" section and getting the phone number of the persons listed there is possible only on request.Īs soon as you activate the spam filters, the numbers from the top list and from the one you created manually will be added to your phone contacts automatically. Contact list integration and other extra featuresĪ neat function introduced in Truecaller is the ability to provide a list of suggestions with people you might know, but the probability to actually recognize someone is quite small. If you want to access the contact details for a certain entry from the lists inside this utility, you can do this only for 10 persons and only one week in which to do so because after that the Premium function expire. The dedicated search function you will find inside this app can be of some help in case you want to lookup a certain number or name, but the results are usually scarce, if any are returned at all. You can also add any numbers you have had some bad experiences with in your personal spam filter list. Truecaller is ready to help you reject unwanted calls as it is equipped with a filter that includes the top known spammers for your region, so you will be protected automatically against them. Block spam calls and find people by name or phone number The information is presented in an easy to read manner, while the navigation among the several sections of the app and through long lists of spam numbers is fluent and without any delays or other types of glitches. The content is organized fairly well and the graphics are decently drawn from end to end.
This application has a tidy look, with an uncomplicated interface that offers quick access to all the features. To help those who need to get rid of these unsolicited calls and escape the hassle of having to answer and reject the offers, a dedicated utility like Truecaller could come in very handy. In many cases, the person being called doesn't have the number listed publicly or simply doesn't want to be bothered with such things. Lots of people worldwide are called by various individuals or even specialized companies who make all kind of business propositions or try to make money with promotions so some sorts.
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