Unwanted spam calls can be expensive. The company Clever Dialer has now published a list of telephone numbers that you should be particularly careful of.

Be careful, cost trap! Be careful of these phone numbers! – The most important thing at the beginning:

  1. Be careful when making advertising calls, concluding contracts or competitions over the telephone
  2. Police and consumer advice centers warn of telephone fraud
  3. Clever Dialer publishes a list of suspicious phone numbers

Annoying and often expensive calls

Anyone with a phone can fall victim to spam calls.
Callers usually call on behalf of companies in order to conclude contracts over the telephone. It's often about competitions or luring people into cost traps. These calls are often not even allowed.

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There are numerous sites on the Internet where people complain about annoying advertising calls. You can find out about suspicious phone numbers
on websites like tellows.de or rufer-vergleich.de The police and consumer advice centers regularly warn against fraud using telephone calls.

Clever Dialer publishes current list of telephone numbers

The company Clever Dialer offers an app for smartphones that is intended to warn users about fraudulent calls. This app is used to determine phone numbers from incoming calls. For this purpose, data is collected anonymously. However, user information is not collected.

Now Clever Dialer has published a list of phone numbers to beware of.
According to Clever Dialer, calls from these numbers are advertising calls, competition offers or cost traps:

  • 069870084922
  • 040334633702
  • 07979664723
  • 0451160897600
  • 040334633701
  • 01516020008
  • 08999727961
  • 089215364483
  • 08007244306
  • 040655891950

Report suspicious numbers

If you receive calls from a suspicious number, you can report them to the Federal Network Agency, which can then impose penalties or have the numbers blocked. The Federal Network Agency has set up an online form .

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Calls often not allowed

Advertising calls from companies are permitted if the user has given the respective company permission to do so.
However, it is not permitted to obtain consent at the beginning of a conversation. Phishing calls also occur again and again in which attempts are made to obtain sensitive data such as bank details of the people being called.
Another topic of fraud via telephone are so-called decoy calls, in which people are usually asked to call back expensive 0900 numbers.

Source: t-online.de
Article image: Shutterstock / By Adha Ghazali


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