Truecaller Now Lets You Hang Up On Scammers — On Behalf Of Your Family

Caller personality level Truecaller precocious launched a caller characteristic that lets 1 personification go an admin of a family group, get alerts astir fraud calls received by different members, and moreover extremity a telephone connected their behalf if they fishy a family personnel mightiness get scammed.

The company, which has complete 450 cardinal users, first launched nan characteristic successful December successful a fistful of countries for illustration Sweden, Chile, Malaysia, and Kenya. Truecaller said that aft seeing promising results, it decided to rotation it retired worldwide, including successful India, nan company’s biggest market. The characteristic is free, and users tin create groups moreover if they are not connected a paid Truecaller plan.

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With this feature, nan tech-savvy personnel of a family aliases friends group tin go nan admin of an up to five-member group. Once nan different members subordinate nan group, nan admin tin get alerts astir perchance fraudulent calls those members receive. If nan admin believes that nan telephone could harm nan member, they tin remotely extremity nan telephone arsenic well. While nan admin tin get alerts for fraud calls erstwhile a personnel is utilizing iOS aliases Android, they tin only extremity calls for members connected Android.

On Android, members tin besides assistance support to nan admin to observe real-time activity specified arsenic stepping aliases driving, artillery level, and telephone sound settings (to cheque if nan telephone is successful silent mode). Truecaller said this is adjuvant for admins to support tabs connected aged members and to only telephone them erstwhile they are not stepping aliases driving.

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The admin tin besides artifact definite numbers and world calling codes, and stock a blocklist pinch group members.

Truecaller noted that nan admin can’t spot nan non-spam telephone history aliases SMS history of group members.

“I think, unfortunately, each of america cognize personification aliases different successful our families aliases friends who person been impacted by fraud,” Kunal Dua, VP of Product, astatine Truecaller, told TechCrunch complete a call. “In that sense, it’s a basal displacement for Truecaller successful position of what we’ve been focusing connected arsenic a problem,” he added.

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Last year, Truecaller introduced a voicemail characteristic for Indian users featuring an AI adjunct that listens for calls erstwhile a personification is unavailable and provides a summary of nan transcript. The institution is exploring a akin AI attack for family protection to perchance alert nan admin astir what benignant of fraud telephone a group personnel is receiving.

The institution is besides exploring utilizing AI to surface calls and automatically disconnect them erstwhile definite words associated pinch scams are detected, specified arsenic “digital arrest” — a maneuver successful which perpetrators impersonate rule enforcement officers to extract accusation aliases money from telephone recipients.

In India, scam calls person risen complete clip and caused financial losses crossed nan country. Truecaller said that it identified complete 7.7 cardinal fraud calls past year. Indian authorities person launched multiple initiatives, including a controversial policy called SIM binding that could hamper nan moving of apps for illustration WhatsApp and Telegram.

Truecaller is facing headwinds. Its banal has dwindled by complete 80% successful nan past 12 months. During its Q4 2025 report, nan institution said that its EBDITA– a measurement of operating profitability — dipped 49% year-on-year, pinch advertisement gross declining 31%. The institution is besides facing challenges from India’s Caller Name Presentation (CNAP) system, which displays nan sanction of nan caller arsenic registered pinch their telephone carrier. Truecaller has maintained that conscionable displaying a caller’s sanction won’t trim spam calls, arguing that its level goes further by offering community-based reports.

“In India, location has been overmuch talk astir nan imminent rollout of CNAP,” Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala said during nan Q4 2025 net call. “CNAP is partially rolled out, and truthful far, nan effect connected our personification maturation is limited. As we person said successful nan past, we expect that CNAP mightiness person immoderate effect connected personification growth, but that remains to beryllium seen arsenic CNAP reaches a afloat rollout.”

Continued Jhunjhunwala, “Our attraction continues to beryllium connected delivering a superior product, and arsenic you are aware, nan user tin take to person CNAP and Truecaller successful parallel, wherever we supply a batch much accusation and a batch much discourse and various different solutions, for nan consumer.”