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Affected by the epidemic, after people’s outings were restricted, they turned to online entertainment. Last year, business opportunities for online shopping grew substantially, the most in history, but it also became a good time for scam groups. Inbound call filtering app “Whoscall” recently released the “Whoscall 2020 Annual Report”, of which three sets of phone numbers are most used by fraudulent groups.
Whoscall noted that despite Taiwan’s successful epidemic prevention efforts, in 2020, the volume of fraudulent calls and texts soared by 488%, and cross-border fraud has become the top threat. According to the report’s analysis, Taiwan was hit by a large number of cross-border fraudulent phone calls last year, from Tunisia and Nauru.
Li Yanru, Director of Research and Development at Whoscall, said that fraudulent groups generally install their computer rooms in areas outside the country where telecom regulations are lax, or use VoIP to make numerical alterations to defraud Taiwanese, and these abroad and altered. Numbers are restricted by Taiwan Telecom In accordance with laws and regulations, incoming calls will start with “+”.
The Whoscall report noted that the top three fraudulent calls started with “+86”, followed by “+44” and “+22”. +86 was blocked 137,000 times, and +44 and +22 were 87,000 times respectively. With a lock volume of 34,000 times.
In addition, the number of fraudulent texts has also skyrocketed. These texts usually contain unknown links. When users click on them, they will cause cell phone poisoning and Trojan horses will be implanted. In addition to the leakage of personal information, they can also become a tool for spreading fraudulent texts. Whoscall also announced the top three phishing URLs, namely “OOO.duckdns.org”, “OOO.xyz” and “OOO.club”.
Besides scams, there are also many sales numbers that confuse the public. Whoscall said the biggest sales were calls for cars, motorcycles and bank loans. Last year alone, there were 10.8 million calls. Second place was Spiritual Bones Tower and Corrective Education Sales. There are also more than 7 million calls; Third and fourth place are insurance calls and stock calls, which add up to almost 5 million calls, representing an increase of 40% compared to 2019. The reason is that the epidemic has led to events and trade shows large-scale commercials and, as a result, marketing calls have increased substantially.
(Zhongshi News Network)
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