It is not possible to know how many Telephone scams They occur per year in Spain, since It is a fact that the Ministry of Interior does not break down in its Annual crime balance, but there are many. Interior encompass them within the computer scamsthat they can use or not the phone call as a means of contact with the victim and that in 2024 They constituted 88.9% – 414,133 criminal offenses – of the Cyberdelites and 16.9% of all crime. A number to which, if the unnounced ones are added and those that remain in attempts, is much greater. In other words, it is important to be prevented when it comes to picking up the phone before a Unknown number.
In fact, you have to take great care of the words that are used in a conversation if it is suspected that it can be a scam. Normally, if in a call someone asks ‘can you listen to me?’, ‘Are you there?’ Or ‘Are you?’ You will immediately answer yes. But If the interlocutor is unknown and, above all, formulates them at the beginning of the conversation, you may be facing a scam attempt.
Why should you not say the word yes in a call with an unknown number
These types of deception work as follows. You receive a call from someone who almost immediately asks: ‘Can you hear me?’ His goal is that you respond ‘yes’something that most instinctively do in that situation. There may be some detours to provide credibility to the situation, such as ‘I have problems with my headphones’ or ‘I call you right away’. But, in reality, that person with whom you are talking does not even have to be real, but A robotic call that records your conversationand that ‘yes’ that you gave could be subsequently edited to seem, for example, that you authorized an important purchase that you will never receive and the scammer. Your ‘yes’ could also confirm the scammer that the phone number he marked is real, which would allow future telephone scams.
In other variants of the scam, the person who calls can ask: ‘Is it (his name)?’ or some other question that answers ‘yes’. It is possible that the person who calls does not hang immediately and Continue the conversation to try to steal your personal information or record your voice more. In any case, you have to have Be very careful who is said ‘yes’ in a call with an unknown number.