Instruction
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Ways of cheating via SMS is currently have accumulated quite a lot. It is difficult to describe them all, and also algorithm of actions of the recipient of such messages in one article. But it is possible to give General recommendations, which, however, in each case, will be very effective. Before only if you receive a suspicious message from an unknown number, which in one way or another makes you transfer money you for the unknown coordinates, you must understand that it is a fraud. Of name, he wrote: from a relative, Bank, mobile operator, etc.
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It is necessary to exercise greater vigilance before sending SMS to short numbers. It should not disclose their personal data, including details of codes of Bank cards (the real Bank staff will never ask you for a pin code or a three digit number on the card) and also be careful when clicking on links contained in SMS with short numbers.
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The major mobile operators are trying to protect their customers from SMS scams. They usually provide free service SMS messages (sending and receiving) short codes, or let you know the exact cost of SMS to short number before sending it. Take advantage of these services. Also if your phone is connected to the Internet, you need to install good antivirus software and monitor the ongoing relevance of its virus database with regular updates.
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If despite all the above warnings you still become a victim of an SMS Scam, you need to call your mobile operator and provider of short numbers (to see who is the provider on the corporate website of mobile operator) on the fact of fraud and unauthorized withdrawal of funds from an account if it was made using a short number, or to go to the police with a statement, if unknown persons demand from you money transfer, posing as Bank staff, relatives, etc.
Useful advice
In the presence of artistic data, you can get a big moral and a small cash the pleasure of communicating with the attacker. So can you explain, for example, "Bank employee" (the caller probably from places not so remote) that you would be happy to send an SMS to a unknown number with your credit card, but you have, of course, much to your regret, the money runs out on the phone and to receive further instructions from "Bank employee" you would like to ask him to translate 300 rubles on your phone. If you are an artist, you can get a small compensation for moral damages from a call of fraud.