In just eight months, Truecaller users manually blocked 7.4 crore calls from 1600 numbers.

The 1600 series was created for important service calls such as OTPs, fraud alerts, transaction confirmations, and essential updates. But its growing use for promotions is eroding trust, causing people to ignore even genuine calls.

Consumers deserve transparency and the freedom to decide which calls to answer. The solution is not to remove useful information. It is to stop the misuse of 1600 numbers and restore their original purpose.

Have you received a spam call from a 1600 number?

Every day, over 1 lakh people block 1600 numbers on Truecaller. As promotional calls increase, people stop trusting these numbers altogether, even when the call could be an important OTP, fraud alert, or transaction update.

If you have received a spam call from a 1600 number, please sign the petition and help us urge the authorities to protect the 1600 series from misuse.