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Wangiri, this is how telephone scams aimed at stealing user data work
The hackers who try to appropriate users’ personal data, especially in recent years, have refined techniques and strategies to especially target less prepared or more fragile people, also taking advantage of technological progress. One of the telephone scams that has been the most popular in recent months is that of ringing without answering.
Wangiri, how the ringing technique works
This is the so-called Wangiri, an ad hoc technique that leverages above all on the curiosity of users who try to call back that number, effectively falling into a cruel trap, perhaps because they are convinced they have received an important call. Except that once the callback is made, services are activated without the user’s knowledge. And by the time you realize the damage suffered, it is too late.
Typically these calls can arrive at any hour, mostly from 7am to 10pm, seven days out of seven. The only thing you can do to protect yourself is to avoid responding. Most of the time these are unknown numbers that come from numbers with prefixes relating to certain distant countries such as Cuba, Tunisia, Moldova. United Kingdom or Kosovo.
If you see a call from the following area codes, you should definitely ignore it. The prefixes are: +255, +371, +375 and +375. To the mentioned prefixes must also be added +44 (United Kingdom), +53 (Cuba), +216 (Tunisia), +373 (Moldova), +383 (Kosovo). By calling these numbers, most of the time, all we do is activate expensive services that can even empty our account.
How to behave to avoid scams
As the experts have highlighted, these calls can also arrive continuously, until the user calls back. They bet on the fact that the person to be deceived may also get tired of the constant calls, clumsily deciding to call back to make their voice heard. Besides ignoring the numbers in question, the other thing to do is to block them so as not to allow bad people to continue to bother us in the future. There are many systems to block these numbers. For all the necessary information, you can also contact the customer support of your telephone company.
After various failed attempts, it is important to always keep your guard up, also because scammers are devising increasingly sophisticated and devious systems to get their hands into other people’s wallets. Unfortunately, it is above all the elderly and the most fragile people who most of the time end up remaining entangled in the meshes of these serial scammers. This is why it is important to warn our grandparents or parents of the possible risks they run by answering or calling back these numbers.
