Truecaller is a smartphone app that helps discover unknown callers. Now as per a report by Reuters, the company’s CEO confirmed that they are working on the caller ID service to be available on WhatsApp soon. There has been a significant spike in spam calls and messages from international numbers on the instant messaging platform.
Truecaller will save you from annoying WhatsApp spam calls and messages
Every user receives unsolicited calls or sometimes even from people they know but don’t have their contact saved in their phone. There have been various instances where people have been pranked, scammed, and fallen prey to fraudsters. Today spam calls and messages are not only limited traditionally. They have become rampant on WhatsApp to target unsuspecting users. However, there is no service or tool currently to identify the unknown person before communicating with them. In short, a user has to copy and paste the number of an unknown WhatsApp user on to Truecaller’s search directory.
Truecaller CEO said that telemarketers are switching to internet calling although it is fairly new to the market. He added that over the last two weeks, the company has seen a spike in user reports from India about spam calls over WhatsApp. The Truecaller’s spam identification feature will help in identifying potential spam calls on the instant messaging platform.
It remains to be seen how Truecaller’s caller ID service will work on WhatsApp. It could probably alert users of any incoming spam calls. The integration in WhatsApp is currently in the beta phase and will be rolled out globally later this month.
It makes sense for Truecaller and WhatsApp to work on spam identification with potential solutions before it becomes a widespread nuisance for users.
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