Block spam calls on Airtel, Vodafone, Jio, MTNL and BSNL Mobile phones
There are a lot of instances where persons are being scammed or defrauded. Following tools work on the whistle blower principle and as soon as one or more persons flag the number as a scam all the other users are protected. Truecaller is not being recommended as it resorts to nagware prompting for payment and has a lot of pop up advertisements. The options below do not contain any advertisements or annoying pop-ups.
| Primary Protection | Secondary Level Protection | |
| Apple Phones | https://www.hiya.com/products/app Hiya uses crowdsourced information so if any one person or more person reports a call as a spam then it will automatically flag the call as a spam call. https://blog.hiya.com/hiya-network-rows-with-google-and-samsung Call Identification: Free Call blocking: Optional paid service No annoying advertisements of pop-ups. | https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/trai-dnd-do-not-disturb/id1443781196?ls=1&mt=8 TRAI DND disconnects the phone number of the spam caller upon repeat violations. https://trai.gov.in/portals-apps/trai-apps |
| Samsung Phones | Already included in Samsung Phone app. To enable see instructions on https://www.samsung.com/in/apps/smart-call/ Call Identification: Free Call blocking: Free No annoying advertisements of pop-ups. | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=trai.gov.in.dnd&hl=en-gb |
| Other Android Phones | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.dialer&hl=en&gl=BR Call Identification: Free Call blocking: Free No annoying advertisements of pop-ups. | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=trai.gov.in.dnd&hl=en-gb |
| Any other phone | https://trai.gov.in/faqcategory/unsolicited-commercial-communicationsucc Call Identification: Not available. Using this facility the spam callers number is permanently deactivated. Call blocking: Free No annoying advertisements of pop-ups. |