Spams

Trai's DCA platform for stemming out spam, pesky calls in next 2-3 months

The DCA will accelerate the process of getting consumer consent on the distributed ledger technology platform (DLT) mandated by Trai

Google to discontinue spam backdoor for political campaign groups

Google plans to discontinue a pilot programme that let some political campaign emails bypass spam filters in Gmail at the end of this month, the media reported

Google Voice adds 'suspected spam caller' to warn users about spam calls

This feature does not have admin control and is available to all Google Voice users

Microsoft rolls out new feature to its MFA app, prevents spam attacks

Microsoft has rolled out a new feature to its multi-factor authentication (MFA) app, Microsoft Authenticator, to prevent spam attacks

How WhatsApp is turning into a spammer's paradise?

WhatsApp was hit with a major outage recently. Off late, the platform has also become a paradise of sorts for spammers. Here's more about this growing menace

Inbox irritant: Spam, promotional messages flood WhatsApp user accounts

Businesses see it as a way to connect with customers; parent firm says there are easy ways to block an account

Spam messages, once a menace on SMS platforms are now all over WhatsApp

According to the latest survey by LocalCircles, 95% of Indians said that they receive spam or promotional messages on WhatsApp every day

Twitter paid whistle-blower $7 million to silence him, says Musk's lawyer

The payment was mentioned in passing at a Sept. 6 hearing in the lawsuit between Twitter and Musk over his attempts to cancel a $44 billion purchase of the company

Whistleblower never flagged spam, Twitter tells judge in buyout case

None of former security head Peiter Zatko's questions "had anything to do with spam" until he filed his whistler-blower complaint, Twitter said

How Truecaller is using AI assistant to help you attend, or drop calls

Considering the number of reports on spam calls in India, a voice assistant to filter them will be a huge step

Elon Musk files defence under seal as Twitter trial is set for Oct 17

Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk over a canceled $44 billion buyout of the social-media platform is set for a 5-day trial starting Oct 17 in Delaware

Musk hints at paying less than $44 bn for Twitter amid row over spam bots

On Friday Musk tweeted that his plan to buy Twitter was placed on temporary hold as he tried to pinpoint the number of fake accounts on the social media platform

Musk's team now gets busy counting fake, spammy accounts on Twitter

He tweeted: "To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover"

TMS Ep163: Indian unicorns, real estate recovery, US Fed Policy, spam bot

How sustainable are Indian unicorns? Will a rise in input cost and interest rates hit real estate recovery? What are the markets expecting from US Fed Policy? What is a spam bot? All answers here

Elon Musk wants to get rid of Twitter spam bots. What are they?

Elon Musk is set to take charge of Twitter headquarters at San Francisco. One of the things that irked him on the social media platform is spam bots, which he promised to stamp out. Let us know more

Nearly half of Elon Musk's 90 million Twitter followers are 'fake'

According to Twitter auditing tool SparkToro, of Musk's 87.9 million followers (at the time of the research audit), roughly 48 per cent are fake, reports Time

Mobile users in US get spam texts from own numbers amid Russian threat

In some users' case, the spam link forwarded them to Channel One Russia, a Russian state media network: Report

India made over 202 mn spam calls between Jan to Oct: Report

Truecaller said in a statement that it has been able to help its 300 million users around the world identify and block 37.8 billion spam calls

India ranking in global scam report goes up to 4th position: Truecaller

The report said over 202 million spam calls were made by just one spammer in India this year. That's over 664,000 calls every day and 27,000 calls every hour of every day.

India stands 9th among 20 most spammed countries in 2020

Only three years ago, India ranked as the most spammed country in the world.