I'm just gonna be that guy - just install Truecaller. It has been the singular line of defense against all scammers and spammers for most (almost all) people in

I'm just gonna be that guy - just install Truecaller. It has been the singular line of defense against all scammers and spammers for most (almost all) people in India and it works wonderfully. Scammers/spammers get routinely identified and blacklisted using crowdsourced information, and with terrific speed and prejudice. I do believe the reason most scammers have started focusing on foreign victims instead is because Truecaller has made it nigh impossible for them to dupe Indians at scale. Yes, they have the bad habit of scooping off your contact lists to index people without consent, and, on hindsight, is indeed an affront to telephone privacy, but its benefits outweigh those compromises enough.