Indian smart phone users receive highest spam calls

India figures at the top of a list of 20 countries that receive the highest number of spam calls, with a smart phone user getting over 22 spam calls on an average every month in the country, a new report said on Friday.

The report by True caller revealed that the US and Brazil with an estimated 20.7 calls per user each month tied for the second spot in the list. In India, most of the spam calls constitute selling data plans and promotions, etc.

Other spam calls that users receive are generally related to debt collection, bank, political, health, spam, telemarketing, financial service, scam and insurance.

"India's spam call issue lies with operators and financial services. Many of these operators are seeking to provide special offers for free data, or unlimited calls. Which doesn't sound so bad until you get bombarded by them," the report revealed.

For the report, True caller aggregated data anonymously from incoming calls that either had been marked as spam by users or automatically been flagged by True caller during the period January 1-May 31 this year.