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How can you tell if your phone number is in a scammers database ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zero Knowledge" data-source="post: 1021869" data-attributes="member: 57429"><p>Here is a story, I got a new mobile + sim + new number 2 years ago. For the first few days I was setting up my phone no calls/no texts/no browsing and I didn't contact anyone on the phone or let anyone know the new number. What do I get with a day or two? Spam calls <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤬" title="Face with symbols on mouth :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png" data-shortname=":face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" /> and then came the hacking attempts <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite131" alt="(n)" title="Thumbs down (n)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(n)" /> They like to use shortened URLs as phishing lures/malware implants.</p><p></p><p> I laughed hard when I got the first few texts, but luckily you can block unknown calls/texts now on phones so all good <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite114" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zero Knowledge, post: 1021869, member: 57429"] Here is a story, I got a new mobile + sim + new number 2 years ago. For the first few days I was setting up my phone no calls/no texts/no browsing and I didn't contact anyone on the phone or let anyone know the new number. What do I get with a day or two? Spam calls 🤬 and then came the hacking attempts (n) They like to use shortened URLs as phishing lures/malware implants. I laughed hard when I got the first few texts, but luckily you can block unknown calls/texts now on phones so all good :cool: [/QUOTE]
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