A report by caller ID application Truecaller has ranked Kenya among top 20 countries where spam calls by fraudsters are commonly made.
Nine out of every 10 of calls (91 per cent) blocked by users and Truecaller are made by cone men.
In a month, every user of the Truecaller App receives 7.7 spam calls. The calls are categorized as a scam, financial services, and nuisance calls.
“Scam calls are basically fraud attempts via your telephone, with scammers using a phony scheme to swindle money from unsuspecting members of the public,” cited the report.
It further noted that: “The data was aggregated anonymously from incoming calls marked as spam by users, automatically flagged by Truecaller during the period of January 1 and May 31, 2017, to understand the monthly average spam rate. During this period, our users received over 5.5 billion spam calls.”
India, U.S, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, and Morocco also appeared in the top 20 list of countries most affected by spam calls in 2017.
The report further expounded that local scam calls, telemarketing and debt collection calls, and unsolicited finance and insurance product offerings are the most common forms of spam calls.