Madrid, April 2 (EFE) .- Some 40,000 complaints arrive each year at the OCU mailboxes with the same motif, telephony, especially mobile , a sector that has established itself as the focus of abuse and deception. The catalog ranges from annoying calls “toxic” numbers, to 806 or messages fattening the bill.
Fraud in many cases generating millions in profits to multiple owners of a “business” in expansion and growing in parallel with the “smart” phones.
The x-harassment and thymus through these devices has a “repertoire” that both security forces and the Organization of Consumers and Members know well, although none is alien to ongoing developments
Researchers polled by Efe such practices summarized in five major methods.
THE FRAUD OF MISSED CALL
You receive a call on your mobile, you get to pick and which is not registered as “lost”. By returning this call, we derive a number of special pricing: they are 806, 807, 906 or 907, which either represent four euros just to talk, or have a bill for very high minute
. This practice has another mode. When picking will jump an answering machine that tells us that we have a message or a pending packet receive at home, for which we need to send an SMS.
From the time they start charging you on your receipt false subscription service messaging, called Premium SMS.
JOB COSTING
You call or send a message offering a job. For more details you have to call another number charging face. One trick to avoid you become aware that a 806 is that in his speech your interlocutor does not tell you “call 807″ but calls the “eighty, seventy five, etc”.
Experts consulted warn that operators take part of the benefit of these calls, although long they are more involved in curb these abuses to customer complaints.
APPLICATIONS WITH VIRUS
This is a more sophisticated method and from which you get to not account until the bill arrives no. Criminals use an application -can be a game- of the millions that are downloaded daily to introduce malicious code to program your phone to make calls to certain numbers without percatarte that you have given permission.
And that is when you install this application, although not read the fine print, you are authorizing the execution of shipments Premium SMS messages that cost about 1.40 euros. Until it reaches the invoice with payment of several of these messages you can not unsubscribe from the service.
The last, experts say, is to lure the new service calls via Whatsapp. Under the pretext of downloading an application to turn it, we again give high in messaging inflate our receipt about 40 euros.
If you know it, it is advisable to immediately uninstall this app and ask our company if we have subscribed to some other service.
NUMBERS TOXIC
In most cases not hide any deception, but are very annoying. Call almost any time from apparently normal numbers that offer advertising “very aggressive”. There are numbers that are rented, passing from the hands of companies telemarketing from banks to insurance companies or telephony.
CONTESTS AND SHOCK “WITH AWARD”
These messages arriving at Mobile facilitating participation in a sweepstakes or to download a movie or song. To achieve the goal, ask you to enter a code or password that you get if, as you suggest, you enter your number.
You get to download that song, but to give your phone you just pay to an SMS service expensive unknowingly.
They are only five cases. A sample, the researchers say, than the more “harmless” Cybercriminals can cause with a simple call or message to your mobile.
To Enrique Garcia, spokesman for the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) most of these practices are a “scam” and consist of “collect receivables” with the approval of the operators that take part on the cake of a business that should be banned
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