Salar of fraud: Beware of calls from Great Britain!

Salar of fraud: Beware of calls from Great Britain!

Großbritannien - A worrying increase in fraud calls from Great Britain causes excitement in Austria. Since March 1, 2025, 250 complaints about suspicious calls with the international area code +44 have been reported to RTR (Rundfunk and Telekom Regulative GmbH). Klaus M. Steinmaurer, managing director of the RTR, described this decline as alarming and found that the number of unreported cases is probably significantly higher. Therefore, he advises everyone who receives such a call to ask themselves whether they are actually expecting a call from Great Britain and, if in doubt, do not lose weight. According to the reports, this coincides with experiences of those affected, which were asked by an automated female voice to an alleged job offer via their WhatsApp contact to add them, which enables fraudsters to communicate free of charge.

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The fraudsters are increasingly using area-wide areas because the anti-poofing regulation has strongly contained criminal activities with fake Austrian numbers since the turn of the year. This leads to these stitches becoming more and more sophisticated, and the expert urgently warns: "A healthy distrust is essential for unexpected calls from abroad." The RTR also encourages every form of harassment by calls or SMS at phone number abuse.

The increasing number of complaints shows that the fraud in the digital space is increasingly spreading. In many cases, naive people who react quickly to chat messages and thus reveal their personal data. Therefore, special caution is required, since such calls are an increased risk of personal information, as well as steiermark.Ork.at reported.