Mobile phones are now considered to be the leading part of our lives and the users must know about the scams. Nowadays everyone wants privacy and security of their phones meanwhile scammers and hackers work to scam and hack people’s phones. So in this article, we had compiled some of the scams and the precautionary measures how to avoid these types of scams.
Scams that are based on mobile applications:
Do u remember the Google Play Store is offering 3.3 million applications and how can you know which application is scam-free or not? People for fun installs a lot of application on their phones but they forget there might be unaware of the application’s scam. These scamming applications can steal your sensitive data. So stay alert while installing any application.
How can you block spam text messages and calls?
Text scams: sometimes people text you pretending to belong from your account bank branch and in reality, they are just scammers who just want to steal your bank information.
Missed call scams: if you receive missed calls from the countries code that don’t belong to your country like +284 +473 don’t try to attend the calls.
Scams related to phone insurance: phone insurance scams are considered to be the most common scams that most people are facing. These scams intelligently defraud the users. Some fake companies do contact the user by making calls and they claim that they are real companies and they insist the users purchase insurance for their phone from them.
In this way victim easily falls into their gaming net. Abstain from giving your personal information to these types of companies till you get the information that these companies are authentic or not.
