Truecaller moves beyond caller ID

After more than a decade serving over five hundred million users, the Swedish company is taking its scam intelligence to the open web with no app or sign-in required.

Scam Checker launches on Sunday

Truecaller on Sunday launched Scam Checker, a new web and Android service that lets users paste in a suspicious phone number, link, or message to find out if it's fraudulent.

How Scam Checker works

The service surfaces related reports from Truecaller's community, Scamfeed. It checks links by expanding shortened URLs and following redirects, then checks these against its proprietary risk database and other fraud signals.

Rolling out to multiple regions

The free-to-access tool will initially be available in India and is set to expand to Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Southeast Asia, the company said.

Scams have shifted beyond calls

In a two thousand twenty-five GSMA survey of Indian adults, forty-six percent of those who reported being scammed said they were approached through messaging apps, while thirty-seven percent were via SMS and thirty-two percent through voice calls.

Community reports fuel detection

Truecaller said about twenty thousand scam reports are live on Scamfeed in India, with around one thousand three hundred new reports added each week. Between September fourteen and twenty, it evaluated twelve point nine billion messages globally and flagged twenty point three million as fraudulent.

Caller ID faces new competition

Truecaller's core business faces pressure in India, its largest market with more than three hundred fifty million users. Telecom operators are rolling out the federal government-backed Calling Name Presentation service, while Apple and Google have added their own caller identification and spam-protection features.

Protection must follow the scammer

CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala said scams have moved to a multi-channel approach with links and messages, and increasingly to voice and video. Truecaller's protection has to follow the scammer beyond caller ID.

“Our protection has to follow the scammer.”