Definition

Crowdsourced threat intelligence aggregates user-submitted fraud reports and behavioral signals into shared detection databases — complementing proprietary ML classifiers.

Key Points

  • truecaller ScamFeed: community reports feed scam-checker verdicts
  • 12.9B messages/week evaluated; 20.3M flagged fraudulent (company scale claims)
  • Trade-off: India TRAI ordered caller-ID apps to share spam data with telecom operators — truecaller criticized one-way exchange

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