Is an unknown number bothering you again? Before you pick up, check two things

Scams and spam are becoming more and more common, and another call only makes us anxious. It’s hard not to answer because the number appears as “unknown”. If there’s no caller ID, you can’t be sure if it’s a potential scammer or an important one you’ve been waiting for. Additionally, you cannot block spammers if their numbers are not displayed. Fortunately, there are ways to avoid being fooled and being cheated.

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What to do when you receive a call or message from an unknown number? 4 tips

There are several rules that will help us avoid unpleasant situations and not expose us to loss of money or theft of personal data.

• Never provide personal details, passwords, bank card codes or reply codes via email.
• Never call back numbers you don’t know, this is often a case of fraud. Never answer calls from unknown numbers, especially if they are foreign numbers.
• Don’t believe what people say on the phone. No tech company will call you unsolicited, and your bank won’t ask you for your password over the phone or to open a new account.
• Never click on a link in a text message you receive. Don’t reply to these messages.

What to do when an unknown number calls? There are 3 ways out of the situation

You hear the telephone ringing and appears on the screen. The first thought is that either telemarketers want to convince you to buy something or potential fraudsters will impersonate, for example, banking institutions or an insurer. How to deal with nuisance calls from unknown numbers? You have 3 options:

• Before answering, check the number online if it appears on your phone screen. Type it into your Google browser. Based on Internet users’ opinions, we can assess whether a given connection is positive or negative.
• If the interlocutor introduces himself, for example, as a representative of a bank, you better hang up and then call your bank’s hotline and notify the employee about the conversation with a person pretending to be an employee of the facility. Thanks to this, you will quickly verify whether the previous interlocutor was not a potential fraudster.
• If we answer and it turns out that we are dealing with a consultant, we can ask him to remove our phone number from the database. Our request should be fulfilled immediately, in accordance with .