5 ways to protect themselves from the phone spam

It is difficult to imagine a person who never received calls from spammers. Professional zvonilschiki interfere with life to all who once accidentally "light up" your number when you make a loan or registration.

Often the contact information for personal gain and use the crooks. Every time their schemes are becoming more sophisticated. That only is the recent roll callBanks acknowledged massive calls with customers podmenonnyh rooms citizens allegedly from Russian banks.

Sberbank warnSberbank has warned about a new kind of bank fraudThat in the next six months is expected to surge in cases phone fraudAs scammers have mastered the technology of artificial intelligence and can now be used when calling other people's voices.

Why not call back on unknown numbers

The most harmless option - when calls are made robot to check if the number is active. Nothing useful from such a call, you do not get, but give all the spammers know that we are ready to conduct a conversation with them.

Often, when faced with the call you back pretty operators of call centers, which ask a lot of questions and especially playing for time. The conversation in this case is carried out on a paid telephone line, and at this moment with the subscriber's written off rather big amount.

How to deal with spammers

Explore ways that will help to find out who called, to prepare for the attacks scams and stop the flow of telephone spam.

1. block spammers

The first method is the most simple and obvious. It works only if you have a number of spammer or a cheater.

1. Open the "Phone".
2. Go to "Contacts".
3. Select a number and click "Block user" (this feature is usually found at the bottom of the screen or on the menu).

2. check the numbers

Contact telephone scammers and spammers tend to diverge rapidly over the Internet. There are special services that collect user feedback on certain numbers. Simply select a website that you like, enter the numbers you are interested in and read what other people write about it.

Here is a small list of free services to check the numbers:

• Ktozvonit.org;
• Someone zvonit.rf;
• Cheinomer.ru.

You can also leave your feedback on the number. This will expand the base and help other users to determine the phone spam.

3. Download antispam application

Today, in the technology market can meet a variety of programs to deal with annoying calls spammers and scammers. However, to the choice of tools should be approached carefully: often the application prompts the user number and access to the phone book, and then contacts fall into a common base. How then are used These data - an open question.

However, these programs have a large database of spam numbers and can automatically determine information about the caller during an incoming call. Offer apps for Android and iOS, not requesting data users.

Who is calling

The program paid for protection against telephone spam. At the base of about one million numbers. Each has reviews of real users.

If you configure the application, including automatic number identification. During an incoming call, the caller will be displayed category - spam, call center, bank - or company name.

Reviews for rooms can be viewed in the application itself, or in the call log. All comments are anonymous users.

Yandex - Alice

For Android offers similar functionality "Yandex". The mobile application is a function call recognition numbers are determined by the base "Yandex. Directory "or customer feedback.

The developers claim that there are about five million businesses. If the number there is no information on the screen during an incoming call appears "Maybe - advertising / debt collection / spam".

Caller ID can be enabled in the application settings.

4. Connect business directory

Thousands, if not millions of users have the app on their smartphones "2GIS". But not everyone knows about the options "Caller ID".

You can enable it in your phone settings. In case of iPhone we must act as follows:

1. Go to "Settings".
2. Open the "Phone".
3. Select "Block. and the ID manually. calls. "
4. Turn on "2GIS".

Thus the name of the organization will be determined at the time of an incoming call. To doubt the accuracy is not necessary: ​​the "2GIS" giant database of city and mobile numbers. However, it should be borne in mind that the program identifies contacts legal and respectable organizations, rather than spammers and scammers. But in war, all means are good.

5. Use the options operators

All operators offer their subscribers the possibility of blocking spam. Most often, these options are paid, but quite effective. That's how much a function of the "black list" of different operators:

• "MegaFon" - 1 ruble per day;
• MTS - 1.5 rubles a day, blocking SMS spam-free;
• "Beeline" - 1.01 rubles;
• Tele2 - 1,1 rubles.

Hint for the future

When registering on the site, try to include your phone number only where it is desperately needed. And do not ignore the user agreement: they tend to have all the information about the further fate of the possibilities your data.

Do not click on suspicious links that come in the SMS. And with careful hand out your number on the bulletin boards on the Internet.