No more spam SMS from companies!

No more spam SMS from companies!

Companies which send promotional SMS will have to take your consent before sending you any SMS.

You can now check which companies can/cannot send you an SMS.

Earlier, your service provider (eg- Airtel) would not know which companies are allowed to send you a message.

So any random company could send you a promotional message and you could not do anything but get annoyed.
With the implementation of Digital Consent Acquisition (DCA) process, the companies will ask for your consent for any promotional messages.

You will get an SMS with common short code "127xxx" with the company name and other details asking for your consent.
Only upon receiving consent, service provider (eg- Airtel) will allow these companies to send you any further SMS and calls.

You can check all the blocked/unblocked companies from your service provider app.
Yesterday companies from banking, insurance, finance and trading sectors were instructed to onboard the process.

We should expect companies from other sectors to be onboarded by 30th Nov, 2023.

 

[MusicalMind]

We have to try a foreigner's approach to marketing calls where he set up a number that would charge incoming caller. He willingly wasted the caller's time by unnecessarily extending it and raked millions. Absolute madlad.

Give me the news source bro I need to read that

 

[pothi]

Is it even work these days most companies started spamming in WhatsApp and calling me daily companies rarely use sms these days

Just need a clarification. Do you get promotional calls via WhatsApp too?

 

[MusicalMind]

Just need a clarification. Do you get promotional calls via WhatsApp too?

Depends if you enquired for a service they will definitely through WhatsApp using their personal numbers

 

[Trust Me]

No more spam SMS from companies!

Companies which send promotional SMS will have to take your consent before sending you any SMS.

You can now check which companies can/cannot send you an SMS.

Good news as long as it helps.

The problem is, marketing SMS are only a subset of all spam SMS!

Examples:

1. Jio sends me SMS in 2 languages! One set may or may not be spam, but the duplicate messages in the second language are 100% spam. Their CC claims, they don't have a way to stop them!

2. Informative or "Public awareness" messages once in a while are fine, but repeated too frequently constitute spam in my view. There should be some rule that the same message can't be sent to the same number more than a couple of times within a reasonably long time period.

There are others....

Spam emails are another menace. e.g. Flipkart floods me with marketing emails everyday. Following the "unsubscribe" link tells me that my email address does not exist in their records! -- In order to get even, I stopped buying from them altogether.

 

[pothi]

Spam emails are another menace. e.g. Flipkart floods me with marketing emails everyday. Following the "unsubscribe" link tells me that my email address does not exist in their records! -- In order to get even, I stopped buying from them altogether.

True. Experienced the same from f*kart.

I sent / marked those email to spam.

 

[Trust Me]

I sent / marked those email to spam.

I do the same. Doesn't always help. Plus, with imperfect spam filtering, I need to go carefully through the spam list manually before deleting them!

Is there a way to automatically filter into a specific folder within the spam folder?

 

[shrewdoc]

I do the same. Doesn't always help. Plus, with imperfect spam filtering, I need to go carefully through the spam list manually before deleting them!

Is there a way to automatically filter into a specific folder within the spam folder?

Use Gmail/Outlook Filters. Create one if need be. Takes maximum 30 seconds.

 

[Trust Me]

Use Gmail/Outlook Filters. Create one if need be. Takes maximum 30 seconds.

I haven't really explored it, since I didn't want to make my filters independent of the built-in spam filtering. I'm not sure I can specify my own filters on top of the spam filter.

 

[shrewdoc]

I haven't really explored it, since I didn't want to make my filters independent of the built-in spam filtering. I'm not sure I can specify my own filters on top of the spam filter.

You can.

You can override your filters too, or you can let the Spam filters and your filters run at the same time to your mails too. It's very easy to go through. Have at it once.

 

[Dhruvit.S]

Can they do something for calls too? Im frustrated

 

[CosmicCat]

Can they do something for calls too? Im frustrated

This upcoming policy is focussed on calls as well, not exclusive to SMS only. The circular is worded to seem it is exclusive to SMS, but the first two lines clarify that it is not.

 

[gurbina]

This is great news if it also involves calls. I used to get 5+ spam calls a day.

After months of reporting in DND and directly to the companies, it has come down to a call once a day every other day

They should really punish the harassment of some of these callers mainly for loans and CC

 

[BhaiyaJi]

 

[palen]

Good move, hope they do something about the spam calls as well.

 

[mukesh01]

This is great news if it also involves calls. I used to get 5+ spam calls a day.

After months of reporting in DND and directly to the companies, it has come down to a call once a day every other day

They should really punish the harassment of some of these callers mainly for loans and CC

IndiaLends, BankBazaar, PaisaBazaar, Credit Mantri, Bajaj Finance.
See we don't get spam messages from banks, UPI apps.

 

[Dhruvit.S]

This is great news if it also involves calls. I used to get 5+ spam calls a day.

After months of reporting in DND and directly to the companies, it has come down to a call once a day every other day

They should really punish the harassment of some of these callers mainly for loans and CC

How are you doing that? Reporting? I get calls from private numbers

 

[gurbina]

How are you doing that? Reporting? I get calls from private numbers

After a while I noticed that with DND app reports you will eventually get rid of most callers.

The problem is the ones calling from private numbers the sketchy agents, that'd be a job only for Truecaller. Even if you report these numbers and their number gets restricted they'll prob call from different numbers. I'm surprised how come they never run out of numbers...

 

[mukesh01]

Same with me,
I have hundreds of numbers and not a single personal number.
Mostly IndiaLends, Finbud.
Can anyone tell me how to stop FinBud, I have emailed them but that is not working.
I hate automated calls.

 

[mukesh01]

Govt must first stop automated calls, why do even need automated calls?

 

[Walter White]

Govt must first stop automated calls, why do even need automated calls?

Arvind Kejriwal ne na jaane kitne logo ka neend udaya hai in calls se 😂