Security News > 2020 > December > Vishing criminals let rip with two scams at once

Phone scams, where a person or a computer calls you up and tries to trick you into saying, buying or doing something you later regret, are still a prevalent sort of cybercrime.

What we have noticed is that most of the scam calls we're getting these days are automated, and that the calls themselves - just like phishing emails that are trying to cajole you into taking the next step by yourself - are merely calls-to-action, not full-on sales pitches in their own right.

In one recent vishing scam we received, the crooks made a triple blunder: their messaging system kicked off too early, misrecognising the end of our voicemail message in a way that no human caller would do; their message included peculiar grammatical errors; and they accidentally unleashed two scams in one message.

Don't return a call to a number given by the caller.

Hang up on unwanted voice calls; don't return automated voicemail calls; don't click login links in emails; and if you need to report or investigate a scam or a fraud, find your own way to the company concerned.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/12/08/vishing-criminals-let-rip-with-two-scams-at-once/