Recently, there have been many phone scams, sometimes accidentally answering a strange number, the money in your account can be lost. If you want to avoid becoming a victim of scams, these are the calls you should press the mute button immediately.
Call from the person who mistakenly transferred money to your card
When a stranger suddenly calls you, saying that they mistakenly transferred money to your card. When you check your account number or a message from your bank saying that you have extra money, the other party now asks to transfer the money back to them immediately. If you think it is real, you will transfer the money to the other party. A while later, another person asks to transfer money to them and now you know that you have transferred money to the scammer.
If you see these 3 calls, you need to hang up immediately if you don't want to lose all the money in your account.
Or in another case, about 1 month later, you will receive many lending companies calling you, because the money was not transferred by mistake at all, but the other party used your personal information to help you apply for a loan.
When you have been scammed and have to pay back the money from the lending company, so when someone asks to transfer money, you must confirm clearly, do not transfer money blindly.
Fake police call
The Ministry of Public Security said it has continuously received complaints from people denouncing individuals impersonating police officers and making threatening phone calls with the aim of defrauding and appropriating property.
Notably, although many recommendations have been made and news agencies and newspapers have published many articles and propaganda articles on preventing this type of crime, some people still "fall into the trap" of scammers, losing billions of dong.
According to Hanoi City Police, the method of this type of crime is to use high-tech software, anonymize phone numbers similar to those of public police agencies, and notify victims related to a case or incident that the police are investigating.
The subjects provided information consistent with the victim's identity and assets and made threats, even staged and connected the victim to see and talk on the phone with a person believed to be a police officer to gain the victim's trust. After that, the criminals asked the victim to transfer money to the account they specified, and at the same time forced the victim to keep the incident a secret to serve the investigation.
Therefore, when you receive any call claiming to be from the police investigating a case, you should immediately go to the nearest police station to report it. In addition, you should not disclose personal information on social networks, e-commerce sites, or when shopping at stores.
At the same time, you should not follow strangers' requests such as downloading installation links, logging in personal information, bank accounts, to avoid revealing personal information, allowing criminals to take advantage of it to defraud and appropriate property.
Fake online sales call
If we shop online, someone pretends to be a seller and calls, saying that there is a problem with a product we bought at this time that cannot be shipped, or for some reason money needs to be transferred.
They may send you a link, once we accidentally click on this link, it is very likely that the information in our mobile phone will be stolen. If we accidentally enter our bank card account password, it is possible that the money in your bank card will be stolen.
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