Truecaller Launches Web Tool to Check Suspicious Links, Numbers, and Messages
The free tool requires no app or account, expanding shortened URLs and checking destinations against Truecaller’s risk database. Initially available in India, it draws on 20,000 active ScamFeed reports and 1,300 new reports weekly.
Truecaller launched Scam Checker in September 2026, a free web and Android tool that lets users paste a suspicious phone number, link, or message to determine whether it is fraudulent — no app download or account required.
The tool works by expanding shortened URLs, following redirects to their final destination, and checking those against Truecaller’s proprietary risk database and fraud signals. Users can also submit a suspicious message, and the service will extract any embedded phone number or link and surface related reports from ScamFeed, Truecaller’s crowdsourced scam-reporting community. More detailed information about a phone number — including the name associated with it — remains available only through Truecaller’s existing signed-in service.
Scam Checker is initially available in India, with planned expansion to Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Southeast Asia. Truecaller estimates that people conduct around 14 million web searches per month to verify suspicious links and phone numbers, a behavioral pattern that shaped the product’s design. “When you need it, you’re usually somewhere else,” CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala told TechCrunch. “What people do in that moment is search.”
ScamFeed currently hosts around 20,000 active scam reports in India, with approximately 1,300 new reports added each week. Between September 14 and 20, Truecaller said it evaluated 12.9 billion messages globally and flagged 20.3 million as fraudulent.
The launch comes as scams have expanded well beyond phone calls. A 2025 GSMA survey found that 46% of Indian adults who reported being scammed were approached via messaging apps, 37% through SMS, and 32% through voice calls.
The move also comes as Truecaller’s core caller ID business faces growing competition in India, its largest market with more than 350 million users. Telecom operators are rolling out the government-backed Calling Name Presentation service, while Apple and Google have added their own spam-protection features. India’s telecom regulator also recently ordered caller-ID apps to share user-submitted spam reports with telecom operators — a requirement Truecaller publicly criticized as a “one-way exchange.”
Truecaller says it plans to expand Scam Checker’s detection capabilities and add screenshot upload functionality in the near future.