The gadgets you use, the smartphones and laptops, expose you to serious threat, both to your personal information and your life. Online scam and unknown callers are common ways that people you do not know, stalk you, and try to get your information to use them illegally and in unethical ways.
Unknown callers and Messages
When your phone rings so fast that you fail to answer it up before the call hangs up, that is a missed call scam. Your phone shows you a missed call afterwards, and in some cases you may not be in a position to recognize the number. What do you do in such a scenario? Most people will always call back the numbers. But this is a nuisance, and you can also be scammed in two ways:
1. The number you are calling back may be a premium rate number, which is quite expensive and will charge a lot more than the usual rate.
2. The caller may tell you some enticing information, for example winning a prize, prompting you to call another number to make a claim. The second number may be a ringtone number subscription or a premium rate number that charges you exorbitantly.
Sometimes you also get messages from unknown numbers. Funnily, the message content seems fishy, they are friendly and communicate in a tone that you may feel it’s a friend. For example, “Hi James, you are late.” Some are very tricky and lead you to lengthy, interesting conversations, only to realize later that your messages were being charged immorally expensive.
Online Scam
Online scam is another common way people will always try to cheat you and get your information. While you chat with friends on your smartphones, be wary of scam emails, scam chat, scam love messages, and others. Do not reply to them, ignore and set some security measures to help protect you from online scam. Do not give your credit card information to unknown people since you will most likely lose your money. Only visit the appropriate and secure websites.
Be wary of such text messages lets they make you pay bills you never planned for. Always be cautious when dealing with such messages, contact your friends from their actual number to find out if it is really them. The best way to protect yourself from such online scam and unknown callers is not to reply to such messages and also do not call back. Also protect yourself from online scam by only communicating with those you know, not replying to unknown emails and getting a good antivirus.