If you are one of those who constantly receives bank callss that offer credits and other products, now you have an ally. The National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services (driving) aware of how annoying this can be, he created the tool called El REUS.
This tool is a Public Registry of Users, which contains personal information of users of the Mexican financial system who do not wish to be bothered with advertising and/or promotions from banks.
By being registered in this tool, you enter, so to speak, a ‘block’ that frees you from the advertising of the banks; now this It will not happen with the collection if in your case you have a debt with the bank or financial institution.
What to do to not receive calls from banks?
The registration service is free.
No documents are needed and the service is freeit is only required to have on hand the numbers that you want to block, as well as the email addresses in which you no longer wish to receive promotions.
Take into account that you can ‘block’ up to two financial institutions and the effective date of this registration is after 45 calendar days from the date of your registration and has a duration of 2 years.
How to register?
- There are three ways to register in REUS:
- By means of a telephone call to the Condusef Service Center or attending any of its offices by appointment
- Register through its official page
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The Truecaller Insights 2021 Report revealed that calls from banks increased by 23%.
The Truecaller Insights 2021 Report revealed that spam calls from financial services and debt collection in Mexico increased by 23% that year.
Truecaller is the application most used in the world to identify and block phone calls for free and spam SMS.
In its 2021 edition, it revealed that the category of Financial services and debt collection was the most relevant item in the country with 74.6%; followed by the Sales category which reached 20.6% and, finally, there are scam calls with 4.8%.
Truecaller Insights 2021 ranked Mexico fifth in the world and third regionally by reporting that, on average, Mexicans received 15.5 calls from banks as spam per month, surpassing Brazil (32.9 calls per month) and Peru (18.02 calls per month).
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