Checkout: Telecommunication Operators Are The Top Spammers In Nigeria

Many Telecos subscribers has been complaining bitterly about too much of Spam Calls and SMS From their network providers.  NCC has worked hard to put this to an end by enforcing Network providers to introduce a service called DND (Do Not Disturb).  But it has been working properly.

It has been made clear that The DND initiative has not worked. It appears to be a shell that wasn’t well thought out or well implemented. The blocking options are so vague and sweeping that subscribers who block certain categories find out that they have blocked services that they need. It is a case of “Damned if you do; damned if you don’t”.



I used DND briefly and suddenly all the vital notifications that I needed stopped coming in. What to do? I disabled the service so I don’t get cut off from essential services. Of course, that means I had to endure those pesky SPAM calls and messages all over again. Eventually, anti-SPAM apps came to my rescue. I use those to block offending numbers.

The problem with those is that I had to block those numbers afresh each time I switched phones. Still, it is better than having to endure the daily barrage of unsolicited calls.

List Of Top Spammers In Nigeria

Below is the breakdown of the mobile subscriber SPAM statistics as published by TrueCaller:

• Telecom operators: 61%
• Nuisance: 27%
• Scam: 10%
• Telemarketing: 2%

Telemarketers are not Nigeria’s big SPAM problem. Scammers are not either. Telecom operators are. The Big Boys themselves. That isn’t a big surprise.

TrueCaller says that of the top 20 countries affected by SPAM calls in 2017, Nigeria is number 9.

Can you imagine that?  As for me,  What DND should be is that the network or marketer should obtain a subscriber’s permission BEFORE sending any calls or messages.


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