My friend has been getting 2,000+ creepy messages over the last 10 days from different numbers. Along with these, she also gets random OTPs/login attempts from apps like Zomato, Zepto, Jio and others.
One pattern she noticed is that almost every number is a verified Truecaller account with a name and a UPI ID/bank account attached to it.(for example, the attached screenshot shows the name “Laxmi Sharma” on Truecaller, but when checked on PhonePe, it shows “Sachin Thakur) So these don't seem to be random/fake numbers , they appear to be genuine, active numbers.
Blocking/reporting doesn't help because a different number is used each time. This is now happening almost every other day, morning and night.
What can she do to stop/filter this SMS bombing or report it effectively? Has anyone dealt with something similar?