You can stop sales calls and messages in minutes: how to opt out of marketing calls and complain about spam SMS

• South Africans get a lot of sales calls – and scam SMSes are all too common.
• But you can stop a large percentage of those calls, and get the people sending those messages in trouble, with not a lot of work
• Here’s how.
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South Africans are among the most spammed cell phone users in the world.

According to research by mobile anti-spam app Truecaller, SA is ranked fourth in the world for “nuisance and unsolicited calls”. Only Brazil, India and Chile fare worse than South Africa for unwanted calls and text messages.

At least 49% of these spam calls in 2018 were scams. But the remaining 51% fell under some

Article source: https://www.businessinsider.co.za/stop-spam-calls-and-sms-opting-out-of-marketing-in-south-africa-2019-8