Truecaller Survey: 1 out of 3 Women in India Gets Sexual or Offensive Calls or SMS

One of the more than illuminating reports on International Women'southward Day proves just how much work remains to be done to ensure denizen safety and prevent harassment.

Truecaller has just released a report titled 'Understanding the Bear upon of Harassment and Spam Calls on Women.' The study is based on a survey conducted from January 20 to 22 February among 2,004 women anile fifteen-35 beyond fifteen cities in Republic of india. Shockingly, around 78 percent of the polled women received harassing calls with inappropriate or sexual content.

Truecaller'due south written report further stated that among the surveyed women around 82 percent receives unsolicited sexual videos and pictures at least once a week. With data being mined and sold for dimes in India the incidence of stranger calls have risen. Effectually 50 percent of the harassing calls and texts were from complete strangers, whereas around 11 percent were made by those who regularly harassed women during the survey period, and 3 percent were from persons known to the victim.

In its official argument, Truecaller stated that men in India receive four percent more unwanted calls than women every month, only women report 18% more than unwanted calls than men. Besides sexual harassment spam calls are also related to fiscal fraud. "At least one time a week, 72% of the women surveyed received calls from fraudsters seeking to collect payments or sensitive personal data, with 4% receiving counterfeit calls nearly daily," said the study.

Truecaller Survey: 1 out of 3 Women in India Gets Sexual or Offensive Calls or SMS Going by Truecaller's Insight 2017 written report, India has the highest number of spam calls in the world. In case yous're wondering, an average Truecaller user receives 22.6 spam calls per month.

It is also worth making a note that effectually xc percent of women in Bharat utilise Truecaller to block harassers and spammers and 95% use Truecaller to identify and pinpoint unknown callers. "Close to two-thirds (62%) of the women have taken measures against these calls, which is very encouraging," says Truecaller. That being said, only ten percent of women filed a complaint with the police, while only about 7 pct named and shamed the spammer on social media.