---
title: "Truecaller now lets you hang up on scammers calling your family"
description: "The free Family Protection feature lets a family admin get alerts and end scam calls remotely."
url: https://kurddevelopers.com/en/news/truecaller-family-protection-hang-up-scammers
language: en # English
type: news
published: 2026-03-13T04:30:00.000Z
updated: 2026-11-02T02:45:48.000Z
author: "Osamah Ismail"
author_url: https://kurddevelopers.com/en/author/1
section: "Security"
tags: ["Truecaller","scams","Android","security"]
sources: ["TechCrunch","Truecaller"]
image: https://kurddevelopers.com/uploads/2026/11/family-protection-hero-62f1bc65.jpg
translations:
  ku: https://kurddevelopers.com/news/truecaller-family-protection-hang-up-scammers
  ar: https://kurddevelopers.com/ar/news/truecaller-family-protection-hang-up-scammers
publisher: Kurd Developers
publisher_url: https://kurddevelopers.com/
---

# Truecaller now lets you hang up on scammers calling your family

> The free Family Protection feature lets a family admin get alerts and end scam calls remotely.

![Image: Truecaller](https://kurddevelopers.com/uploads/2026/11/family-protection-hero-62f1bc65.jpg)

## What does it do?

Truecaller rolled out Family Protection worldwide, including India. With it:

- An admin can create a family group of up to five members.
- When a member gets a fraud call, the admin receives an alert.
- The admin can end that call remotely. This works only for members using Android.

The feature is free.

## Where did it start?

It launched in December 2025 in Sweden, Chile, Malaysia and Kenya, and is now available globally.

## By the numbers

- Truecaller has more than 450 million users.
- Last year it identified more than 7.7 billion fraud calls in India alone.

## Who is it for?

People whose parents or older relatives are easy targets for scammers. Chief product officer Kunal Dua called it "a fundamental shift for Truecaller in terms of what we've been focusing on."

**Sources:** TechCrunch, Truecaller

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Published by [Kurd Developers](https://kurddevelopers.com/) on 2026-03-13. Cite as: “Truecaller now lets you hang up on scammers calling your family”, Kurd Developers, https://kurddevelopers.com/en/news/truecaller-family-protection-hang-up-scammers