

The most number of calls received by Malaysians this year come from financial service companies.

Their 2021 report on spam and scams gives us an insight into how Malaysia has fared this year and how badly spam calls have affected us. Their app has over 300 million users worldwide and has detected and blocked 37.8 billion fraudulent calls in 2021 alone. Swedish caller ID developer Truecaller aims to help prevent this. The ones that do however can lead to devastating effects like causing families to lose their savings. However, not all spam is designed to steal your money. That means about 90% of the country’s population are prime targets for spam and scam calls. There are about 29 million Malaysians who own smartphones.
