Mobile phone virus scams give false alerts claiming a virus has been discovered on your phone. We’ve linked banking, emails, and other sensitive data to our phones, making them a perfectly centralized target for identity theft and fraud. Mobile phone scams are aimed at deceiving you into voluntarily infecting your device or handing over private information.
Common types of mobile scams include Mobile phone virus scams, Texting scams, voice mail scams, and one-ring scams. The scammer wants to validate that your phone number is in use. The scammer will hang up before you answer, asking you to call back. They are setting you up to make an expensive 1-900 call, which they benefit from.
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Calling a 1-900 number can be expensive.
I should ___________ if I get a call from someone I don’t recognize.
Because of international privacy regulations, you cannot block a number that comes from overseas.
Why would a scammer call someone and hang up?
If I have a landline telephone, I can feel safe knowing that scammers will never contact me.