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Brazil has taken over India as the most spammed country in the world, with the average Truecaller user receiving 37.5 spam calls per month. This means that Brazil has seen an 81% increase of spam calls in a year, says a newly released report by Truecaller.
Here is a further breakdown of the stats:
- Although Indian users are highly affected by spam calls there’s been a marginal decrease of spam calls in the market (1.5%.)
- An interesting trend is that USA has dropped from the 2nd highest country affected by spam calls to the 8th – compared to last year. Despite the decrease of spam calls, the US is still heavily affected by phone scams. 1 in every 10 American adults (10%) lost money from a phone scam in the past 12 months. With an average loss of $357 per victim, the result of these scams is projected to have cost 24.9 million Americans approximately $8.9 billion in total losses. Read more here: https://blog.truecaller.com/2018/04/26/truecaller-insights-usa-2018/
- There’s been a big increase of spam calls in European markets like Spain (100%), Greece (54.1%) & Italy (22.7%.) However, Turkey has seen a decrease of spam calls (18%.)
- Compared to last year fewer African markets are in the Top 20 list: Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, & Nigeria. South Africa is the only country in the list – as a matter of fact the amount of spam calls has increased from 15 to 21 spam calls/months – that is a 40% increase.
- Biggest trend: a lot of Latin American countries have entered the top spam list, & these countries are seeing the biggest increase of spam calls. Costa Rica being the country that has seen the highest increase in terms of percentage (330%.)
Click here to read the report.