India saw spam calls decline in 2020, calls to emergency services rose during lockdown: Truecaller report

Truecaller has released its Insights Report for 2020, which ranks India 9th on the list of top countries affected by spam calls. This was a drop for India in the rankings, which indicates spam calls actually fell this year in the country. Truecaller’s report also revealed another interesting fact during the three months of lockdown: In India calls to emergency services spiked by 148% at the beginning of the lockdown.

The fourth edition of the report points out that the Covid-19 pandemic affected “communications behaviour and spam patterns around the world”. As per the report, Brazil is the most affected country in the world by spam calls, followed by the US and Hungary.