Cyberpolice recommends pretending to be an unsuitable victim in a conversation with telephone scammers. This will help them lose interest, and the person will not lose money and personal data.
To protect yourself from calls from scammers, pretend to be an unsuitable victim so that the scammers lose interest.
The department also advised to be creative and come up with unusual answers to confuse scammers. The department recommends not answering calls from unfamiliar numbers, and using an answering machine for important calls.
If the call seems unimportant, it is better to ignore it, the police noted. You can also use voice assistants to answer calls.
Earlier, a new scheme of fraudsters became known. It turned out that telephone scammers offer victims to take out a car loan if the bank refuses a consumer loan.
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