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One in three women are harassed by inappropriate calls!

One in three women are harassed by inappropriate calls!

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One in three women in India who use a mobile phone receive sexual and inappropriate calls or texts on a regular basis, a survey of 2,150 women by an app has revealed.

Apart from calls with intentions of malicious harassment, the women also received unsolicited calls — that aren’t classified as harassment — from bank.

FREQUENCY OF CALLS/MESSAGES WITH INAPPROPRIATE AND SEXUAL CONTENT 


More than half of the surveyed women receive calls with such content regularly at least once a week, while 9% receive it almost on a daily basis. However, the percentage, though still high, has declined from the previous year, that women are possibly taking more steps against such calls. 

Not all calls were anonymous, as some were made by persons known to the victims and some others by stalkers. 
74 % – Anonymous callers 
23 % – Calls/texts by stalkers (11% last year) 
11 % – Calls/texts by known persons 

PHISHING CALLS 

More than half the women (53%) received phishing calls, that is, fraudulent calls made with an intention to elicit personal information such as passwords and credit card numbers. 

ARE BLANK CALLS HARASSMENT OR NUISANCE? 
A majority of the women surveyed considered blank calls as harassment. The survey defined blank calls as “anonymous phone calls made with the intention to threaten, harass or offend a caller, without a sales- or phishing-related objective” 

Effect of Such Calls on Women 


Nearly four out of every five women said they felt anger and irritation due to harassment calls, while about one in three were more affected and felt troubled, worried or frightened. The number of women affected has gone up from the previous year, indicating the effect of such calls on mental health is getting worse. 


78 % – Felt angry or irritated (65% last year) 
37 % – Felt troubled, worried or frightened (22% last year) 

THE SURVEY 


The survey was carried out by Truecaller, an app that finds details of phone numbers, and Ipsos, a market research firm. The survey was conducted between February .. 

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