If people get missed calls from unknown international no\u2019s don\u2019t respond, follow twitter handle, FB account of Cyber Cell for safety precautions: SSP Cyber Cell Tahir Ashraf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Srinagar, June 09: The Cyber Cell of Jammu and Kashmir police Tuesday sounded an alarm over the \u201cone ring phone scam\u201d urging people of Kashmir not to return missed calls or to respond to the calls from unknown international numbers. The Cyber wing termed it as \u201cglobal scam, which has got active for Kashmir also\u201d where scammers give missed calls to people, to irritate them and engage them in long conversations to make huge bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking exclusively to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Cyber Police Cell Kashmir, Tahir Ashraf said that just a day after \u201cone ring phone scam\u201d stepped into Kashmir, they got active and started taking measures to counter the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have issued an advisory for the people how to deal with the scam,\u201d he said. The advisory issued by the Cyber wing reads: \u201cIf your phone rings once and then stops. If this happens to you and you don\u2019t recognize the number, do not return the call. You may be target of a one ring phone scam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The advisory further reads that one ring call may appear to be from the international number. For countering the scam, the advisory states that \u201cdon\u2019t answer ore return any calls from number you don\u2019t recognize, report that number as a spam. Before calling unfamiliar number, check to see if the area code is international. Always be cautious, even if a number appears authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The SSP Cyber Cell said that it is a global scam active across the world where scammers engage people for long durations to make easy money. \u201cSince international calls are costly, the scammers engage people and earn money. By engaging people for long durations over phone, they can access bank accounts and steal the money as well as phone numbers are linked with the banks of the people across Kashmir,\u201d he told KNO<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said if people counter this issue, they should immediately contact their service providers to ensure that the number is marked as a spam. \u201cPeople of Kashmir should also follow twitter handle and Facebook account of Cyber Cell J&K police for regular updates about how one ring scam can be countered effectively,\u201d the police officer said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If people get missed calls from unknown international no\u2019s don\u2019t respond, follow twitter handle, FB account of Cyber Cell for safety precautions: SSP Cyber Cell Tahir Ashraf Srinagar, June 09: The Cyber Cell of Jammu and Kashmir police Tuesday sounded an alarm over the \u201cone ring phone scam\u201d urging people of Kashmir not to return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}