Deal With Spam Calls In An Easy Way
Hey, hello Sir! Can I take some of your free minutes, I have a piece of very nice information to share with you!
Hello, Mam, I am talking from Central Bank your ATM card will get expired tomorrow please renew it, I can do it for you. You don't have to sweat a bit just give me your details and a confirmation message will be sent to you of some numbers. Send it to me and you won't have to go to the bank for that.
Huh, like seriously these spam and fraud callers are rising a lot in numbers today. I don't know how they got our numbers but I guess I know the reason as in some places we fill forms with our numbers and there's no guarantee that person won't sell your data. Selling data is a very profitable business if you don't know.
Today in the morning someone called my Sister saying Mam, your Sim Card validity will end today, kindly recharge today or I have a better solution in which I can extend it for lifetime and you don't have to worry about it much just for free. You just have to send some confirmation digits sent on your phone that's their way of asking OTP ( One Time Password ), she said him to hold for a minute and immediately came to me and told me the issue. She knew it was a scam yet the caller talked so genuinely that she had a doubt, lol. As soon as I heard about this it was clear to me it was spam and the scammer was trying something probably involving money. So I told her to talk to him and say just a second I will be sharing the code with you.
He said okay mam, I am noting it down.
I took her phone switched on the mixer grinder and put her phone close to it. I am sure he become deaf for a few minutes, lmao.
It's better than cursing.
There are so many ways these call spammers try to fraud people either by lottery or by acting as a bank official or from some policy or big organizations.
The majority of scam involves phone number now as now phone numbers are linked to bank accounts, ATM cards and even money wallet apps.
And so one must be extra careful while sharing their phone number details anywhere.
Steps To Avoid Them:-
When money or OTP is involved you shouldn't believe anyone even if it's a friend. Never share your OTP with anyone.
It's not hard to identify them as the things they speak won't feel like a normal issue to you.
Use two numbers of which one number is only distributed to your family or some selected friends and share the other number wherever you can. And never share your house number on the internet or any form as sometimes these numbers are in your house and many of the parents aren't that modern to understand how these scammers work and end up being scammed.
Check on the 'Truecaller' website or application first and block them, don't give them second chance.
Use the mixer grinder method to punish them. Or even you can shout close to mic. Or just bang some steel utensils in front of phone mic. Don't shout too much or the mike of your device may get hurt.
Final Thoughts:-
No matter how worse one's condition is, one shouldn't justify a scam as a last resort and a good act. I saw a culprit's statement saying he had no other choice, oh yeah man I hear you.
Now, most of the world is shifted in your palm holding the device called the smartphone. Which is capable of transferring your money from here and there. And so there are many ways to be scammed just through a phone call.
Let your parents know about these scams as well as your kids.
I found one of my cousins was frauded in getting a free battle pass of a game. He is 13 years old. He shared an OTP from his parent's phone and they instantly lost 1000$ from their account. His father was a policeman so the culprit was caught. But the cyber police don't get serious about these small cases many times. So you should take care of yourself.
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I surely agree with the OTP thing though, one of my friends got scammed because she shared her pin with a person who thought was a banker.. major lesson learned for her