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Oct 25, 2026
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
It doesn't matter which company it is.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
I still meet salespeople that if I tell them, open up Truecaller on your computer.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
Like, I don't know why in 2026 I have to be harassing salespeople.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
or business people, that Truecaller should be a tab that is open on your phone, steady.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
You have a phone number, before you make that call, copy, paste, put it in Truecaller, search, and then see what comes up.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
You'll be surprised.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
You might think you want to call Madam Kemi Abdulkadir, you copy and paste, and then the name that comes up is Chukunoso Chukunehe.
Taveshimma AyedeHOST
Your company has put out advertising campaigns to drum up some business.
speaker_0HOST
We're talking about frontline, everyday tools.
speaker_0HOST
Truecaller, SpyDialer, Epios, Zlookup.
speaker_0HOST
You've got community-driven stuff like 800 Notes and free HLR lookups, which essentially ping the home location register to see if a mobile number is even active and what network it's actually running on.
speaker_0HOST
These are completely accessible directories anyone can use to start scraping that very first surface layer of a phone number's identity.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, moving down the essentials column, we hit a totally different methodology.
speaker_0HOST
We're moving away from government policy and getting into tools like 800 Notes, Truecaller, and Who's Call.
speaker_1HOST
Ah, yes, the crowdsourced intelligence ecosystem.
speaker_0HOST
I would really want to focus on Truecaller because I actually downloaded one of these spam blocking apps a few years ago.
speaker_1HOST
A lot of people have.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah, I was getting bombarded with car warranty calls and the app was amazing.
speaker_1HOST
Consider how these apps get the names of normal, everyday people, not just the spammers.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
Andy HallettGUEST
You can get it on Apollo, Lucia, et cetera, et cetera.
Andy HallettGUEST
But actually, if you look at all the stuff, you know, Apple bringing call screening, Truecaller, things like that, it's actually difficult to actually get.
Andy HallettGUEST
And the thing I hear from the floor is we just can't talk to people.
Andy HallettGUEST
So actually the opportunities you actually get to talk to people, build relationships is going to be the difference.
Michael GarfieldHOST
There really, there, there's third-party services.
Michael GarfieldHOST
There's something called Truecaller.
Michael GarfieldHOST
What that does, it helps with caller identification.
Michael GarfieldHOST
There's also spam filtering.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
Well, if you're lucky, your phone can automatically alert you that these are spam calls.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
But what about those unwanted SMSs that are clogging up your phone? At times you even ask yourself, "How did they get my number?" Now, according to Truecaller's 2026 South Africa's spam report, South Africans received 17.47 billion spam calls.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
Get that, 17.47 billion spam calls between January and June this year, an over 25% increase as compared to the same period last year.
Bongiwe ZwaneHOST
The National Consumer Commissioner's still hard at work to try and ensure that this is resolved.
Ruth AdongHOST
Fintechs, banks, telcos, insurers, retailers, and other digital businesses will need to build consumer outputs into their marketing systems.
Ruth AdongHOST
Truecaller's twenty twenty-six South Africa spam report found that there were seventeen point five billion spam calls between January and June, between January and June, twenty-five point two percent higher than the same period in twenty twenty-five.
Ruth AdongHOST
Spam short messages or SMS messages also jumped fifty-eight point nine percent to three point seven billion.
Ruth AdongHOST
The number helps explain why NCC is moving beyond asking consumers to ignore or block unwanted messages and is instead putting obligations on the companies sending them.
Helena WassermanCORRESPONDENT
Yeah.
Helena WassermanCORRESPONDENT
I mean, Truecaller, uh, came out with some stats showing that in the first two months of the year, there were almost nine billion spam calls in South Africa, and most of that was to my phone, I'm sure.
Helena WassermanCORRESPONDENT
So Africans get about 240 spam calls per cell phone a year.
Helena WassermanCORRESPONDENT
So it is a massive problem in South Africa.
Imran ShaikhHOST
Spam calls should be a bygone concern, but unfortunately, there's still a plague many of us deal with.
Imran ShaikhHOST
Services like Truecaller have helped with caller identification and spam filtering for years, But since Android and iOS have gotten great at handling spam calls on their own, you don't need to rely on a third-party app, much less pay a subscription, to avoid unwanted callers.
Imran ShaikhHOST
In addition to functions on your phone, your carrier may offer its own spam-protecting features.
Imran ShaikhHOST
Depending on the company, these might be enabled by default.
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