As Telephone teasing They use suspicious international and national numbers to try to get money or personal information. These calls resort to strategies as contacts for contact return or false alerts, so it is important for users to know how to identify warning signs and protect themselves.
International and national indications associated with circumvents
According to Marketeer, a site specializing in lifestyle and today, the numbers used in these frauds often have suspicious international codes, including +355 (Albania), +225 (ivory coast), +233 (ghana) and +234 (Nigeria).
These calls often appear as lost calls, encouraging the user to return contact, which can generate high costs or facilitate new burla schemes.
According to the same source, there are also national indications of special charges that have been associated with similar telephone mockery. Among the most common are +803, +806 and +807, whose calls imply added costs, calculated proportionally to the time in line.
In these situations, burns can resort to quiet calls or create false technical problems to extend the conversation and increase the amount charged, always illicitly.
Used tactics
Fraudulent so -called can assume various forms, the most frequent being simulation of legitimate entities, such as telecommunications operators or public services, false alerts on blocked accounts, or alleged promotions that require the return of the call.
Silent calls are also used to induce the user to contact. The goal is to obtain money, bank data or access to personal information, practice considered a crime of slopping under Portuguese law.
Forms of protection
To protect themselves, experts recommend not answering unknown numbers, especially if they have suspicious indications, and never return unquited calls, particularly international numbers or special fare.
Blocking or silencing these numbers as soon as they appear in the call record is an effective measure to reduce the risk of sloping.
Tools available on mobile devices also allow you to filter this type of calls. In iOS, the option is in definitions> Telephone> Silence strangers, while in Android can be activated on telephone> Definitions> Block Numbers> Unknown.
These features automatically send to Voicemail calls of numbers not stored in contacts, although they may prevent the reception of legitimate communications such as emergency services or police authorities. In emergency situations, the system automatically disables the block for 24 hours, allowing the reception of urgent communications.
It underlines that the proliferation of these telephone mockery requires constant vigilance by users, as schemes continue to evolve and the burns adapt to new strategies to deceive those who answer the call.
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