We will tell you about several techniques by which scammers "bred" us for very decent money.
1. Alien number
You call from an unknown phone number and drop the call. You call back - no one answers, and from your account more than 10 hryvnias are withdrawn to the reserve number of scammers.
What to do? Notify your mobile operator by calling the contact center of subscribers. Unfortunately, the operator of money will not return, but thanks to the received complaint there will be an opportunity to track down scammers on the phone number. Try not to call unfamiliar, especially on short four-digit numbers.
2. SMS Traps
What is the catch of scammers using short cell numbers? A robot programmed with you communicates with you to engage you in an active exchange of messages, each of which costs 2-3 times more than a regular SMS message.
What to do? Do not respond to questionable SMS.
3. Fake shares
The fraudster calls you, is represented by the employee of the Customer Support Center of the mobile operator and offers to connect a new exclusive service free of charge.
What's the catch? The rascal expects that you will agree to the offer and dial a combination of symbols under dictation.
What to do? Do not rush to follow the instructions. Call back to the said service and clarify whether the specified action is being conducted.
4. Subscribing to ...
Advertising in the form of SMS-messages urges you to subscribe to receive various content: games, ringtones, pictures ...
What's the catch? When you send a request for a newsletter, you do not get an answer. As a result, a certain amount is written off from the telephone bill.
What to do? Use the services of only legal content providers.
5. "Help!"
Classics of the genre - getting SMS like "Help save a child! You need a donor urgently!" Details by phone. " In such cases, most scammers use short cell numbers.
What's the catch? The message indicates the phone number, the calls to which are automatically emptied by the caller's account.
What to do? An unknown number should alert you and make you think again about whether your funds will get to the address.
6. The error has come out!
You receive an SMS-notification about the allegedly incoming payment to your account using the "Mobile Transfer" service. Immediately after this, someone calls you or SMS arrives with a request to return a transfer accidentally placed on the wrong number of money.
What's the catch? The calculation of honest and conscientious people.
What to do? Do not solve the problem yourself, but offer to contact the telecommunications operator.
Or this situation: you are called, for example, on behalf of the mobile operator and report that you won the car. Then they ask you to transfer money to a certain account to pay tax on the prize.
What to do? Contact the telecommunications operator and make sure that the action is carried out.
Finally
We often hear about such deceptions, but, as a rule, we think to ourselves: "Well, this will never happen to me!" And in vain. Any person can become a victim of inventive scammers.
Careful, do not pick up the virus!
To force a person to send SMS to a short number to withdraw money from his "cellular" account is the main goal of scammers specializing in mobile phones.
Now scammers are also hackers. They put online programs for phones containing viruses. Virus, getting into the phone while downloading the program, automatically sends messages to a certain short number, while the user's phone is withdrawn in favor of the attacker.