Spam calls are unsolicited, nuisance calls made to a large number of recipients, with the intended goal to persuade the recipient either to buy a service/product or to divulge sensitive personal information. Throughout the given period from 2017 to 2020, Brazil has remained the country with the highest average number of spam calls and had almost 50 received spam calls per user per month in 2020. In 2020, Hungary had the highest increase of spam calls, with an average of 28.3 calls, which was 1132 percent more than they had in 2019 when they only had 2.3 spam calls per user and month.
Average monthly number of spam phone calls per user in selected countries from 2017 to 2020
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Truecaller. (December 8, 2020). Average monthly number of spam phone calls per user in selected countries from 2017 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-month-user-leading-countries/
Truecaller. "Average monthly number of spam phone calls per user in selected countries from 2017 to 2020." Chart. December 8, 2020. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-month-user-leading-countries/
Truecaller. (2020). Average monthly number of spam phone calls per user in selected countries from 2017 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-month-user-leading-countries/
Truecaller. "Average Monthly Number of Spam Phone Calls per User in Selected Countries from 2017 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 8 Dec 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-month-user-leading-countries/
Truecaller, Average monthly number of spam phone calls per user in selected countries from 2017 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-month-user-leading-countries/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Average monthly number of spam phone calls per user in selected countries from 2017 to 2020 [Graph], Truecaller, December 8, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-month-user-leading-countries/
