smsfraud How Truecaller's Smart SMS Helps Protect You From Scams

[John Joseph]

Hello TrueTalks Community,

In today's world, where almost everyone has a mobile phone, text message scams have become a common problem. These scams try to trick people into giving away personal information or money. However, there's good news: Truecaller's Smart SMS feature offers a strong defense against these scams. Let's explore how it works and some common scams to watch out for.

Understanding SMS Scams

Scammers use different stories to trick you. Here are some examples:

• Charity Scams: They pretend to be someone wanting to donate a lot of money for a good cause and ask for your details.

• Lottery and Prize Scams: Messages saying you've won a lot of money in a lottery or contest, asking for personal information.

• Loan Scams: They say your loan is approved and ask you to visit a website or download an app.

• Job Scams: Offering easy money for jobs that seem too good to be true.

• Banking Scams: Fake alerts from banks asking for your personal information.

• Payment and Refund Scams: Messages about money credited to your account or verifying details for a delivery.

• Adult Content Scams: Links promising adult content or products.

• Dating Scams: Offers for dating services, asking you to call a number.

How Truecaller's Smart SMS Helps

 

Truecaller's Smart SMS is like a smart assistant for your text messages. It does several things to keep you safe:

• Fraud detection: Detects fraud message patterns, senders, and URLs, shows a warning and disables the links within the message so that you are protected.

• Automatic Categorization: It sorts your messages into categories, so you can easily see what's important.

• Banking and Bill Reminders: It recognizes messages about bills and payments, helping you not miss important notices.

 

This feature is free for all Truecaller users.

 

Currently, this feature is available in India and on Android. This feature will be available on iOS and in other countries in the coming months.

Additional Scam Patterns Identified by Truecaller

With Truecaller, you can also spot these scams:

• Investment Scams: Promises of high returns with low risk.

• Phishing Attempts: Fake messages asking to verify your account.

• Fake Subscription Renewals: Alerts for renewing services you never signed up for.

How to enable Truecaller Smart SMS 

1. Open Truecaller app, go to Settings and select Messaging

2. Set Truecaller as the default SMS app

3. Also, make sure that Truecaller app has SMS read permission.

 

Download Truecaller:   

Conclusion

Truecaller's Smart SMS feature makes dealing with text messages much safer and easier. By knowing the common scams and using Truecaller, you can protect yourself from being tricked. Always think twice before responding to messages that ask for personal information or money, and let Truecaller help keep you safe.

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[Ashwani Kumar]

Truecal verification 

[Fliad]

Cool

[Fliad]

Doesnt record for  me but spin along time with it

[RohitG]

On 3/27/2024 at 12:41 AM, Fliad said:

Doesnt record for  me but spin along time with it

What is not getting recorded? 

[best]

لماذا لا يسجل

 

[Mayur]

On 3/29/2024 at 4:09 PM, best said:

لماذا لا يسجل

 

Are you getting any error in the app?

 

[Fliad]

I love it. Why feature dosnt work on my device