TRAI DND App: Spam Calls and Texts in India

[Sushubh]

DND (Do Not Disturb) Services App enables smart phone users to register their mobile number under DND to avoid Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC)/ Telemarketing Calls / SMS. This is based on TRAI, “Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2010”.


The new release has the following additional features:

· An intelligent spam detection engine (for SMS only) to assist the subscriber in reporting

· Crowdsourcing of data about offending messages and calls to speed up detection of unregistered telemarketers

· Updates about action taken on complaints within the App

· Easier interface and set up

Do Not Disturb (DND 2.0) - Android Apps on Google Play

 

[Da SpoilerGuy]

I see it didn't work for you :coldsweat:
But yes, it asks for way too many permissions.

 

[Sushubh]

Yup. Approved all permission requests and yet it is DOA.

 

[Sushubh]

Doesn't work on dad's phone. What a piece of shit app.

 

[Jay]

I tried this. It's crap and asks for too many permissions and feels like spyware.

I still have the first version of this app installed. It's no longer on the playstore though. DND Services
The app basically just automates sending the sms in the right format to 1909. VERY effective.

 

[Sushubh]

Apk extract karke share karo.

This one still doesn't work at my end.

I reset my phone few days ago so lost it.

 

[Sushubh]

Never mind that page has it.

 

[Sushubh]

Apple is anti-consumer, indulging in data colonisation, says Trai: The Times of India

the app still does not work on any of the phones i have tried it on.

 

[Karan]

I tried this. It's crap and asks for too many permissions and feels like spyware.

I still have the first version of this app installed. It's no longer on the playstore though. DND Services
The app basically just automates sending the sms in the right format to 1909. VERY effective.

Thank you for sharing the link to this app. Although Android Messages and Google Dialer use a common and effective local blocking option, I decided to give it a try, I unblocked all the spammers and one by one complained against them as they arrived to my phone. Like you said, it is very effective in lodging the complaint, but that is as it seems, as effective as it will ever get. The first of the "investigations" that were done was for a "weight loss" sms spammer using an MTNL Delhi ID, the reply they gave "No action taken as this number does not show any telemarketing activity". Case closed. The rest simply have chosen not to respond.

What is the most surprising part was that the number that was receiving these texts and the odd call was my private number, apart from immediate family no one even knows the number. It was after wondering how all of a sudden this spamming started, it dawned upon me, I had registered my Flipkart account just a few weeks ago with it. Hence, Flipkart seems to have directly or indirectly given/sold my number out.

Anyways, back to using localised blocking

 

[Sushubh]

Has anyone managed to get dnd2 working? x'D