Truecaller May Have Signed You Up for Its Payment Service without Consent - kylefractoggen

Truecaller, the bid-screening coating for which India is reportedly the largest market, has pushed impossible an urgent software update in India afterward a previous version of the app automatically autographed users up to its payment service.

The issue was detected away a bunch of users who started reporting that they had been signed up to Truecaller's payment service without their consent.

Truecaller has since put out a statement claiming that the issue arose because of a bug in the app that automatically conveyed the UPI verification message that's needed to enable UPI-supported defrayment systems.

The company aforementioned, "We have discovered a bug in the latest update of Truecaller that affected the payments feature, which automatically triggered a registration office updating to the version. This was a badger and we have discontinued this version of the app so no strange users will be affected." Information technology boost added that "We're sorry about this version not passing our quality standards. We've taken quick steps to fix the issue, and already rolled out a fix in a newborn interpretation. For the users already affected, the new version with the fix bequeath be available shortly, however, in the meanwhile they can choose to manually deregister direct the overflow card in the app."

Apparently, the Truecaller app was automatically, and quiet sending the UPI verification text edition from users' phones and enabling the Truecaller Payments service which uses UPI. If this was indeed a bug, IT's really unearthly that it slipped through Truecaller's testers, but if it wasn't a bug and merely an excuse to signalise prepared more and more users to its Payment service, well that's truly dark.

Anyway, the new update is rolling out now, which fixes the germ. However, users WHO have been enrolled in the payment service should X up and manually de-register themselves from the service from the overflow menu in the app.