Whether it's smoking surveys or questions about electricity meters - spammers don't run out of topics

Telephone spam check in January: Spam callers start the new year with vigor. Clever Dialer publishes the ten most annoying numbers from January. Even in the new year, spam callers will never tire of attacking their unsuspecting victims with harassing phone calls. It makes sense to extend your spring cleaning to cell phones and landlines and sort them out properly. Because every number that hides spam can also be blocked. Back again: The Dutch lottery spam number +31686157052, which has slowed down a bit and slipped to tenth place.

The most common spam telephone numbers at a glance (January), in descending order of frequency, source: Clever Dialer
The most common spam telephone numbers at a glance (January), in descending order of frequency,
source: Clever Dialer

The spam phone numbers in January and the comments of those affected:

  • 06920436149 (Other): “Keep trying to call and ask for my electric meter numbers and ask very private questions. I will now report all of this to consumer protection and the police and file a complaint against unknown persons. Also tries to discourage moving. Under no circumstances should you answer calls and block the number immediately!”
  • 030201649242 (Competition): “Trying to convince yourself that you won a competition and trying to ask for your account number! Once they threatened me with costs and a lawyer. Now I have blocked the numbers.”
  • 0894161727 (Other): “A survey in collaboration with the University of Munich.”
  • 01639416414 (Competition): “Supposedly a subscription cancellation service, wanted to help cancel a competition. Very bad German. Averted and hung up.”
  • 030439729062 (Cost trap): “As soon as you pick up, they hang up.”
  • 0451160897620 (Other): “A lady wanted to speak to my husband - but couldn't say where she got this number from. It would be an open bill - no details. Since I probably asked too many questions, she simply hung up. Since I have done a phone number trace, I am assuming fraud.”
  • 015211284934 (Cost trap): “The lady spoke very unclearly with an accent that sounded Asian to me. She was bold enough to tell me that she was already debiting my account. She supposedly had my signature, which can't be the case since I don't take part in online games. When I firmly told her that nothing would be charged to my account because I was withdrawing it, she hung up.”
  • 041819474991 (Others): “Want to sell you Bitcoins.”
  • 0404153711 (Competition): “Competition – nerves even on weekends! Nothing is sacred to them!”
  • +31686157052 (Cost trap): “Keep calling, even though I’ve said several times that I don’t want these calls anymore. She wanted to know whether I wanted to continue playing the lottery or whether I should cancel my participation. Then I said it couldn't be right because I didn't know that I was taking part in a lottery game in the Netherlands or anywhere else. “Ok” was the comment and she hung up.”

Note: The user comments have been edited and the content has not been changed.

You can find all of Clever Dialer’s phone spam checks here .
Additional explanations:
Info / Type: Information about the reason for the call, such as sales, advertising, competitions or cost traps.
Calls that cannot be clearly assigned to a category are grouped together under the label “Other”. Total calls: Number of incoming spam calls for the respective phone number
Blocked by: Number of blocked calls for the respective phone number
Comment: selected, anonymous feedback on the spam call in question

Further warnings from Clever-Dealer can be found here.

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