South Africa has just been ranked as one of the top 20 countries that receive the most spam telephone calls and unwanted messages. TheCapeArgus
Cape Town - South Africa has just been ranked as one of the top 20 countries that receives the most spam telephone calls and unwanted messages, according to a report released by the popular caller identity detection software Truecaller. Truecaller released its findings as an Insight Report, a look into the top 20 countries affected by both spam SMS and calls in 2019.
The third edition of the report highlights that nuisance and unsolicited calls continue to be on the rise around the globe. Kim Fai Kok, communications and founding team member for Truecaller, said almost half of all spam calls in South Africa were scam-related, with a dramatic rise in the number of scam calls over the past year.
Kim said they could see a significant shift in which countries received the most spam calls, “and it was clear that the problem was not slowing down, at all”. According to the report, South Africa has been listed in the top six countries that received spam calls and in the top two to be affected by spam SMSes.
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