EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Truecaller, is one of the world’s best caller ID and blocking. There has been great incidents of how the app has impacted one’s life, mostly in fighting crime like online harassment, financial fraud among many others.
The Truecaller Company has recently released 2019 report, to show how the world communicated using Truecaller.
Spams
- Truecaller has recorded 199,000,000 spam numbers in the year 2019.
- Truecallers has identified and blocked 26,000,000,000 spam calls.
- 6 billion spam sms have been identified and blocked by Truecaller.
Women Safety Initiative
With the increase of calls and sms harassment against women, Truecaller made it an initiative to focus on women’s safety and empowerment around the world.
According to a research carried out by them, 1 out of 3 women in India receive sexual and inappropriate calls or SMS.Out of these women, 52% gets inappropriate and sexual related calls at least once a week.
On Women’s Day 2019, Truecaller launched #ItsNOTOK – Against Harassment to share the research and stories behind SMS and call harassment.
Major cases solved by Truecaller
Truecaller has been a great help in fighting crime with law enforcement agencies. Some of the noticeable incidents are:
- Truecaller helps to identify whatsapp hacker In Mumbai.
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/nashik-whatsapp-hacker-had-spread-net-in-mumbai-too-cops/18403182
- Defense uses Truecaller app to fight court case:
Kamran Yousuf, a photojournalist was accused of stone-pelting and other offences in the Kashmir Valley. His defense counsel produced a document before a special court and said when verified by Truecaller, most of the numbers numbers reportedly relied upon by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to show his links with separatists turned out to be of journalists while one number was of a police officer. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/in-a-first-defence-uses-truecaller-app-to-fight-court-case/articleshow/63241043.cms
- Chandigarh stalking case: Subhash Barala kept calling, I didn’t take his calls, says father:
IAS officer Virender Kundu’s daughter, Varnika, was allegedly chased by Barala’s son, Vikas, and his friend, Ashish Kumar, for over seven kilometres on Friday night. On the night of August 4, as he waited with his daughter at the Sector 26 police station in Chandigarh for an FIR to be registered, IAS officer Virender Kundu reportedly received several calls from Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala. “I don’t have his number on my phone, but I knew it was him through Truecaller (app). I did not take any of his calls because I knew what he was going to say,” Kundu told The Indian Express on Tuesday.https://indianexpress.com/article/india/chandigarh-stalking-subhash-barala-kept-calling-i-didnt-take-his-calls-says-father/
Statistics
According to Truecaller:
- 7 billion calls are made
- 4 billion messages sent.
- 74,000,000,000 calls identified
- 17,400,000,000 messages identified.
CONCLUSION
There are many times we feel worried when an unknown number calls and we are curious to know the identity of the caller. Truecaller is one of the best apps that resolve the mystery of apparently unknown callers by a single click. So whether it is someone trying to stalk you or someone you know over the phone or is trying to play hide and seek -there are ways to find out the identity of a caller- using Truecaller. And according to Truecaller 150,000,000 use Truecaller every day to keep their communication more safe and efficient.