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Say Goodbye to #Spam calls & SMS. This TRAI initiative might KILL Truecaller alongside spammers👇
TRAI has yesterday announced that the telecom operators including Jio, Airtel would need to use AI filters from 1st May to block spam messages and calls.

ALL BUSINESSES ARE SUBJECT TO THE REGULATORY RISK AND THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS GOING TO IMPACT A LOT OF BUSINESSES.

#Truecaller
#Truecaller - The app has built its business strategy on spam tagging and it is one of the 4-5 apps on every Indian phone. In fact, we might uninstall all other apps but not Truecaller.

Now, it might see big EXODUS of users in case the AI filters work as expected.
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🎓 ¡ATENCIÓN #PERÚ 🇵🇪 🕵️‍♂️!

💥👉 Nueva Modalidad de #Phishing #Smishing y #Pharming que simulan ser una página idéntica a la entidad @interbank. A fin de captar información de usuarios para luego cometer actividades ilícitas (Ley N° 30096 Ley de Delitos Informáticos).

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1⃣ El dia de ayer 27/04/2023, una amiga recibe un mensaje de texto de "+51931585464" (número reportado como estafa según #Truecaller), donde contenía un enlace acortador, que al parecer servía para consultar si es que habríamos sido acreedores de una supuesta Bonificación.🤑
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2⃣ Examinando esa url acortada (https[:]//bit.ly/lbk-BonoAlimentario) a través de un tip (que se usa muchísimo en estas áreas de investigación #OSINT), vemos que esta URL, hace un redireccionamiento a una página web diferente a la de la entidad financiera #Interbank. 🚨🇵🇪 Image
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Viceroy Research is short Truecaller. Our report is now live:

viceroyresearch.org/2022/09/28/tru…

Truecaller is a Swedish adware & spyware app which feeds a public phonebook aimed at preventing spam (not a joke).

$TRUE $TRUEB #truecaller #thread 1/
The EU’s GDPR &similar legislation across the globe, threatens Truecaller’s business, which we believe is on the brink of redundancy.

It now resorts to skirting regulations and/or avoiding taxes through uncreative loopholes which we believe will be inevitably cut-off. $TRUE 2/
HOW IT WORKS

Fundamentally, Truecaller builds a “phonebook” and refines its spam database by:
1. Gathering identities of users and their address books.
2. Processing user-submitted “spam” numbers.
3. Identifying numbers which have exhibited spam-like behavior

$TRUE $TRUEB 3/
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1/ Thread: Today @privacyint published this story about the danger of @Truecaller. I have a nice addition to it 😏

Due to an open API the #TrueCaller database is accessible to everyone

privacyinternational.org/case-study/299…
2/ By sending the following request you can get the info that #TrueCaller has on the number of your choice:

curl -X GET 'search5.truecaller.com/v2/search?q=[Y…' -H 'Host: search5.truecaller.com'
3/ This is not something new. 2 years ago, someone published the repo "trunofficial" on @Github. This repo is not working anymore because it uses outdated values for myNumber and registerId parameters github.com/ritiek/trunoff…
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