True, it started 7-8 months back. The indian system is completely depended on phone numbers, every service requires a phone number (rather than email ID) even government services; which made your phone number visible to every single company on this planet.<p>I have two numbers, one without whatsapp. While giving my number to companies, I give them my non-whatsapp number so that they cannot spam by whatsapp inbox with nonsense.<p>Here, we do not have phone number forwarding services like MySudo to cloak your real number which these companies take advantage of.