Always carrying your cell phone with you is something that has become normal in Spain in the last two decades. Although the trend now is to try to disconnect from it even occasionally, the reality is that we still carry it everywhere. This means always being reachable.
Companies and scammers know this and SPAM or advertising calls are becoming more common, if not direct calls to try to scam users. The National Police knows it and He already alerted in his X profile about the Wangiri scamin which They don’t even need to try to convince us of anything. since they are not even going to talk to us, something that is necessary in other types of scams of which the state security forces have also warned us.
The reason is that calls from the European Union are regulated, but calls can still be made from countries that do not belong to the Union, with more passive if not non-existent legislation, and that is a problem. Luckily, we can know from which country we are called just by looking at the phone number.
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For example, calls from Spain always start with +34, although we will only see this on the mobile if we are abroad. a few years ago The Civil Guard also warned about what many of the calls that come from countries such as Albania, Nigeria, Ghana or Ivory Coast are fraudulent. That is why, unless we know the number, it is better not to answer. These are the prefixes:
- Albania: +355
- Nigeria: +234
- Ghana: +233
- Ivory Coast: +225
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The scam consists of receiving a one-tone call from a number with that origin. If we answer, nothing happens, it hangs, but if we answer, that’s where we can lose money. By calling that number we may be incurring an additional charging system. that makes the scammers charge for the call and we have to pay very high amounts.
Some users in the same message thread have indicated that they have also received these calls. Besides, some expanded the information indicating that sometimes the one-touch calls were from Morocco, with prefix +212 or from Mali, with prefix +223. Some have even indicated that calls of this type have been found from the United Kingdom, with the prefix +44.
