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Hello guys, Police in Sweden are warning the general public to avoid answering calls from unknown foreign numbers after apparent telephone scammers from Somalia targeted Swedish phones.
Just today morning this +252592432009 number called one of our lines although we can state out our conversation but this to alert some people that the so called number with code +252 is a scam.
A host of suspicious calls from numbers starting with the country code +252 were reported to the police between May 26th and 27th, and that they suspect it's an effort at fraud.
Swedes who were targeted say that they received missed calls during the center of the night, and once they called back they were connected to answering machines and hold music, apparently designed to stay them on a premium rate line for as long as possible.
Telephone operators like Telia have recommended that their customers avoid responding to missed calls from unknown foreign numbers for the nonce . While answering a call from abroad doesn't cost extra, outgoing calls to the numbers do.
The makers of Swedish caller ID app Truecaller saw customer reports about the amount surge over a brief period of your time in recent days, flagging it up as a scam.
"We instantly saw spam reports from +252 skyrocket within hours, and this caused us to send a notification to our Swedish users to take care about calling back," Lindsey LaMont from Truecaller told The Local.
They have now received over 10,000 spam reports about the amount and have urged scepticism if called unexpectedly from abroad:
"Obvious warning signs would be calls or SMS messages from country codes that aren't normal in your circle of friends or family.
If you're not expecting a call from somewhere, it's good to question the call".
According to the manufacturers of the app Sweden isn't unique in being targeted by this type of scam, a consequence of the many people ditching landlines in favour of mobiles as their main telephone.
"These quite scams are getting more and more common as most of the people are going ‘mobile first’ and getting obviate their landlines.
In the US there was the 'One Ring Scam' that's precisely the same as what we are seeing in Sweden immediately . These scams are a simple thanks to cheat people because it plays together with your curiosity but also on the fear of missing out on something important," LaMont explained.
A host of suspicious calls from numbers starting with the country code +252 were reported to the police between May 26th and 27th, and that they suspect it's an effort at fraud.
Swedes who were targeted say that they received missed calls during the center of the night, and once they called back they were connected to answering machines and hold music, apparently designed to stay them on a premium rate line for as long as possible.
Telephone operators like Telia have recommended that their customers avoid responding to missed calls from unknown foreign numbers for the nonce . While answering a call from abroad doesn't cost extra, outgoing calls to the numbers do.
The makers of Swedish caller ID app Truecaller saw customer reports about the amount surge over a brief period of your time in recent days, flagging it up as a scam.
"We instantly saw spam reports from +252 skyrocket within hours, and this caused us to send a notification to our Swedish users to take care about calling back," Lindsey LaMont from Truecaller told The Local.
They have now received over 10,000 spam reports about the amount and have urged scepticism if called unexpectedly from abroad:
"Obvious warning signs would be calls or SMS messages from country codes that aren't normal in your circle of friends or family.
If you're not expecting a call from somewhere, it's good to question the call".
According to the manufacturers of the app Sweden isn't unique in being targeted by this type of scam, a consequence of the many people ditching landlines in favour of mobiles as their main telephone.
"These quite scams are getting more and more common as most of the people are going ‘mobile first’ and getting obviate their landlines.
In the US there was the 'One Ring Scam' that's precisely the same as what we are seeing in Sweden immediately . These scams are a simple thanks to cheat people because it plays together with your curiosity but also on the fear of missing out on something important," LaMont explained.
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