How to identify fake calls and messages
It has now become very easy to identify fake calls and messages coming on the smartphone. Not only this, you can also easily report fake calls and messages coming on your phone. The Government of India has launched Sanchar Sathi portal and app for this. You can report fake calls and messages etc. by visiting the Chakshu section of this portal and app. After this, the number from which calls or messages have been made will be blocked.
How to identify fake calls?
The government has released a new 160 number series for banking, insurance and financial calls. If you do not receive any calls for banking or other financial services from numbers starting with 160, they may be fake.
How to identify true and fake messages?
To identify true and fake SMS, you have to take care of some codes. If you know about these codes then you can avoid fraud from happening to you. The sender of the message coming on your phone will have S, G or P written at the end after ‘-‘. Such messages are genuine and the information given in these messages will not be fake. At the same time, messages coming from other numbers may be fake.
What do these codes mean?
S – S is written at the end of messages related to banking services, transactions, telecom services etc. This means that this message is related to some service which you have availed.
G – At the end of the messages containing government schemes, alerts sent by the government etc., you will see G i.e. Government.
P – At the end of the promotional messages of whitelisted companies, you will see P meaning promotion. These will be those messages whose senders have been whitelisted by the Department of Telecommunications.
Generally, promotional messages coming to your number are sent by banks, e-commerce companies, telecom operators, government institutions etc. Cyber criminals fraud people by sending messages similar to these messages. In fake messages, links to apps containing viruses are shared, on clicking which these viruses reach your phone and steal your personal information. Criminals can use this information to fraud you.
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