A new international pay-per-call phone number missed call scam has been identified from Lativa (+371).
These calls arrive at odd times and often disconnect after one or two rings, not giving the receiver enough time to answer the call. The call appears in your phone log as a missed call and tempts you to return the call.
When you do that, you’ll hear a voice saying something like “hello, you have reached the operator, please hold.”
While you’re doing that patiently, you’re getting charged per minute as per international call rates.
Some reported numbers are:
+37127913091
+37178565072
+37125618877
+3710000000
HOW TO SAFEGUARD AGAINST MISSED CALL SPAMS??
- The simplest solution is “don’t call numbers you don’t recognize”.
- Today many smartphones display the location of the calling number as well. If not, just simply Google the ISD code before calling (first three digits).
- You may also install third party apps like “Truecaller” that references a vast spam caller list.
It goog i found this piece of info i almost called back when i received a miss call from +37162792165.
Just don’t answer calls you don’t recognize and any area codes outside of your Country. If more people were less trusting of these we could stop the scams,but unfortunately people still fall for all of these different money scams…paying the government with gift cards….a child knows better , don’t care what language you speak or how old you are….common sense people, common sense.
Yesterday, I got a call from 371 25 618 877, phone didn’t even ring, I blocked the number but, how do I deal with this??
+371000000000 from Latvia just called with one ring. So many of these calls so forced to turn off my phone e at night. Not ideal as I have a business that ideally needs after hours availability. Yet my wife gets zero spam calls. So may just change my number. I block each one in turn on my iPhone
Kindly assist to clear the doubt if there is possibility of data loss, because I once called back.
I m continuously getting calls from unknown numbers starting with +371. All r just missed calls. I called back once later i googled i found lots of inf and hoax, is there any possibility for my data loose like hack my logged in email pass, google pass, contacts etc?
Is there any possibility for data loose if i call back? I found several hoax in google tht they may steal logged in email and pass, contacts etc., i hope these r hoax cuz i called back once😒😒
Thank you this is all I needed