According to Truecaller in 2018 Spam Calls in Nigeria Reduced Significantly

the popular app for detecting and blocking spam calls and messages, has named the top 20 countries affected by spam calls in 2018. According to the report, the top three countries most affected are Brazil, India and Chile. The report also shows that over 17.7 billion spam calls were blocked out of a total of 74.1 billion phone calls.

These are pretty impressive statistics.

But surprisingly, and for the first time, Nigeria did not make the list of countries affected by spam calls. Last year Nigeria ranked prominently at number 9 on the list, with Truecaller stating the country witnessed 10.4 spam calls per telecom user.

Things appear to have changed this year.

Although Trucaller didn’t provide statistics for Nigeria, it does appear that spam calls in the country has dropped significantly. Which possibly explains why Nigeria isn’t on the list. Based on the top 20 Truecaller spam list, the country with the least amount of spam calls is Israel with around 8.5 spam calls per telecom user.