DON'T ANSWER UNKNOWN NUMBERS: THE TRUTH ABOUT GHOST CALLS

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In recent times we have encountered various thieves who increasingly manage in one way or another to steal our personal data and through them do their thing whenever they can, this is a serious issue and one that we must know so as not to be affected by it.

Therefore, it is a matter of great care since mobile phones today are a fundamental part of our lives , since in them we store banking and personal data and even information about our family members, this being a factor of great care because can lend itself to physical threats.

Its origin

The origin of the calls is unknown, since those who dedicate themselves to this are people with extensive knowledge in the telephone area , therefore it becomes a complicated task for the authorities to find the exact location of these criminals. Without going any further, they can call from Skype using the hide number function, and that way it will be impossible to track them.

Our information travels over the internet without any problem, so we must be extremely careful . This mode of operation is known as “ Vishing ” and is basically replacing the identity of a company, business or person, thus taking advantage of the credibility of each of them.

Thieves trial

These people complete a series of steps to be able to do their thing constantly , the first step consists of searching for information such as names and surnames, place where we live, email, telephone number and the most important, your data from one of our credit cards. property.

To make this possible, they use another modality called “ Phishing ”, once the criminal has the data in their hands, they will proceed to make the call to our mobile phone, communicating with us as if they were our bank or a company with a certain service.

Clearly, we will not know if the identity of these people is true , but as the conversation flows and we notice that they have our data ( mentioned above ) we enter into a certain trust. At that precise moment they will ask us to make a payment or install “ Malware ” and in this way scam on our behalf or ourselves.

Additionally, there is another type of robbery , which is called “ Wangiri ” or as we know it colloquially “ they call and hang up .” What happens in this situation is the following, the thieves try to call our smartphone at various times of the day and when we answer ( Hello? ) they hang up on us.

The scam begins when we return the call due to the insistence and of course the curiosity it generates in us . Automatically, they will answer our call and as the minutes pass the debt will increase, we will be aware of this just when they send us a receipt for our mobile plan with a sum excessive than what we normally pay.

How to avoid these calls

There are many ways to put an end to this problem , one of them is to search your registry, call the number that contacted us and look for the “ report and block ” option. On the other hand, on some Android smartphones there is the function of “ blocking unknown numbers ”.

For its part, if we have an Apple mobile we can activate the “ silence strangers ” function and we can locate it in “ settings ” and we will write in the search bar “ silence strangers ” and we only activate the green tab, in this way with the numbers strangers the call will be forwarded to voicemail .

Some tips to give an additional touch of security to your mobile phones and data could be, downloading an “ antivirus ”, deleting files downloaded from untrustworthy sites, changing your passwords from time to time and if it is allowed in the bank, it is It is advisable to activate two-step verification.