Anyone who receives calls from unknown numbers can be a target for possible scammers.
They try to rip off consumers with a few tricks.
What numbers are they?
Berlin – Supposed lottery winnings, sweepstakes or advertising: the methods and tricks used by telephone scammers are diverse.
Older consumers and pensioners in particular are often the target of rip-offs.
Find out which phone numbers should be reported here.
Telephone fraudsters want to rip off consumers with these scams
Whether it's supposed calls from Europol or the mom trick via WhatsApp: there are many attempts at fraud with the phone.
Fraudsters try to get personal data or even a lot of money.
The app operator
Clever Dialer
tries to prevent exactly that.
A monthly press release lists the most common phone numbers that scammers call most often.
According to Clever Dialer,
the number of these calls
continued to rise in February.
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Fraudsters are increasingly trying to rip off consumers with a telephone connection.
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The tricks of the scammers are becoming increasingly brazen.
"It becomes particularly uncomfortable for those affected when the other person on the phone can even name personal data, such as the address," writes
Clever Dialer
.
The scammers rarely give up after a call, some users speak of a real telephone terror.
More than 75 percent of consumers were contacted via landline connections, while calls to mobile networks fell slightly.
These are the top 10 spam phone numbers in February 2023
Clever Dialer
has listed the inglorious top 10 spam phone numbers in a table.
These were divided into the categories “Cost trap”, “Sweepstakes”, “Spam”, “Collection” and “Other”.
The most frequent call came from Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim.
The reason: spam.
Fake sweepstakes, which appear most frequently in the top 10, followed closely behind.
There were also some cost traps.
A well-known cost trap on WhatsApp is the mom trick, in which scammers pretend to be the parents' children.
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Telephone scammers often use these phone numbers for their scams.
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The scammers used these phone numbers particularly often
The perpetrators used some numbers particularly frequently for their telephone fraud.
The fact that these are quickly blocked does not seem to bother them.
Clever Dialer
collected scammers' phone numbers and shared comments from victims:
061099690321 landline (spam)
: "They're just annoying!
I blocked the number long ago and they still try 6 times a day.
Actually, they should notice it at some point.”
01637875622 mobile (raffle)
: "Supposed lottery company.
I would have played 3 times for free, and I don't play the lottery at all."
022166951483 Fixed network (cost trap)
: "The gentleman wanted data on my energy bill and claimed to be from an energy supplier that I don't know (I forgot the name).
Apparently I had a contract with them.”
04029996605 landline (spam):
"Constant calls.
As soon as you answer, they hang up again.
At least 3 to 4 times a day!
It's just annoying."
015212000519 mobile (competition)
: "As many have already described, you will be asked for your name and whether the competition should continue.
They hung up after I didn't understand."
01632399608 mobile (competition)
: "I would have taken part in a competition and now the data should be compared!
I said thank you and hung up.”
032211076762 landline (competition)
: "Something with the lottery... I only answered their questions with counter-questions and the conversation ended very quickly."
022166951484 landline (cost trap)
: "Telephone terror and advertising for an electricity company."
089201959996 landline (competition)
: "For some reason, he had my data such as address and date of birth.
I was supposed to confirm my year of birth and I asked him to send me the whole thing in writing.
It was immediately hung up.”
015210923002 mobile (cost trap)
: "LOTTO FRAUD!"
If you are contacted by these or other numbers, you have the option of
reporting this to the Federal Network Agency or
Clever Dialer .
A corresponding complaint form at the Federal Network Agency can be found here.
You should block the numbers of the telephone spammers yourself anyway. Whether it's lottery sweepstakes, grandchildren's tricks or sweepstakes, the scammers only want your money or personal data.
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