Bite ICT services provider has noticed that phone scammers have started duplicating telephone numbers of operation services. More than 600 such calls have been registered this week so far. Scammers are known to duplicate numbers like 110 and 112, the company reports.
Most of such calls duplicate 110 emergency number. Bite has reported the situation to State Police and State Security Service.
According to Bite Corporate and Public Relations Office manager Una Ahuna-Ozola
recipients who receive calls from scammers see 112 or 110 on their phone’s display.
The first sign that there is a scammer on the line is that they will request resident to provide their personal data, such as name and surname, personal code and the like. They usually explain this by saying the recipient of the call is in some sort of trouble.
If residents call back to 110 or 112, they will contact the call centres of actual operational services.
‘Phone scammers have come up with a new and very refined method to steal personal data from residents and use their trust in operational services for criminal purposes,’
said Ahuna-Ozola, stressing that Bite has informed authorities of this and has commenced its own measures to block such calls ‘within Bite’s network at the very least’.