3 ways to identify fraudulent and impersonated calls

Although scam calls are not new, many people still fall for the trap, some are even scammed out of large sums of money. So how to recognize scam calls? How will the law handle these scammers?

Be wary of calls claiming to be from authorities

Recently, scam calls have been made extremely sophisticated. Fraudsters often impersonate police agencies, courts, etc. to intimidate and prey on people's psychology or fear.

Victims are often targeted at the elderly, housewives, etc. who have little social interaction and do not grasp new information. Although the authorities and the press have repeatedly propagated this form of fraud, many people still "fall into the trap".

Some acts of using phone calls to impersonate a State agency include: Calling to impersonate a Police officer, Procuracy, Court, bank employee... calling to request information Bank card to receive mail or summons, transfer money to a pre-designated account for investigation...

According to the law, to resolve violations, authorities must work directly with citizens. At the same time, there are no regulations allowing authorities to ask citizens to pay money by phone.

Therefore, if you receive a phone call claiming to be the police, people should be alert and calmly deal with it.

Be wary of calls with strange numbers

According to a warning from network operator VNPT, phone users should be wary of missed international calls. Incoming international calls and messages will display a plus sign (+) or 00 at the beginning, the next two numbers are not 84 (Vietnam country code), for example: Modova (+373), Tunisia ( +216), Equatorial Guinea (+240), Burkina Faso (+226)…
These calls are placed from foreign subscribers to domestic mobile phone numbers with the aim of fraudulently calling the user back and incurring telecommunications charges.
The time when calls arise is usually in the evening or at night. If the listener calls back, a very high fee will be charged.
Therefore, you should consider calling back calls with international numbers if they are not from someone you know.

Be careful with requests to provide personal information or bank accounts

In fact, many people have had their information stolen to appropriate property from phone calls. Their scam tricks are usually: Announcing fake information about winning prizes from banks or large companies, requesting to provide customer OTP numbers or any other reason requiring providing card information or electronic bank account to steal money from the account...

In addition, scammers can also impersonate bank officials, asking for passwords, PIN codes or card information to handle problems related to banking or card services.

Therefore, you should be careful with requests for personal information and bank accounts from phone calls with unknown callers.