How did telephone fraud originate?
Telephone scams have been around for almost as long as the first uganda phone number library landline phones, when only their owners, who were not many, suffered from the hands of scammers. The range of impact has expanded with the advent and popularization of mobile phones.
New technologies have made life much easier for scammers. With their help, swindlers have gained the opportunity to engage in criminal activity even while behind bars. Despite searches and close attention from security, some manage to gain access to mobile communications.
Why not use so-called "jammers" in places of detention, you ask? The answer is simple, it is not possible to do this everywhere, since GSM mobile phone jammers cannot cover small areas. They jam quite large areas, so if the place of detention is located near a populated area, installing such a device will be impossible.
Standard tricks
Since we are talking about frauds related specifically to banking, we will focus on them. Criminals actively use both SMS and phone calls.
It is not difficult to recognize SMS fraud. Tricks with relatives who are in trouble or offering dubious benefits (500 thousand rubles for answering a couple of questions, a huge win, etc.) are unlikely to have an effect on you, which cannot be said about SMS from a bank with information that your card is blocked. Such a message can come from, at first glance, a familiar number, for example, 9-00 Sberbank. Here you need to pay attention to the last 2 digits, the attackers replace them with letters, so an SMS from a criminal will look like 9-OO, and from the bank 9-00.
You also need to check if a new chat is starting with a familiar number of your bank. If you see 2 chats with the same number in the message list, then they are trying to deceive you.
Moving on to calls, the blocked card trick is also popular in this type of fraud. What should you pay attention to in this case?
