Information security expert Taras Tatarinov told how to protect yourself from the growing
The crux of the scam is that the scammerscall a potential victim and pretend to be a support service of a telecom operator. Instilling the need for certain actions in the victim, the person is asked to dial a certain number - a USSD command - a set of numbers and symbols. According to the scenario, dialing this number is needed to combat the leakage of client data, but in fact it is SMS forwarding to the phone of intruders.
How not to fall for this deception, Taras toldTatarinov. According to him, the SMS code that confirms the withdrawal of money is called two-factor authentication, and this has always been a big problem for scammers. That is why they are constantly coming up with ways to get these codes.
The expert explained how you can protect yourself in suchcase. “Defending yourself is very easy. For any suspicious call, you need to say that you will call back yourself and hang up. After that, you need to dial not the number from which they called you, but the short phone number that every mobile operator or bank has, ”advised Tatarinov.