Caution! Phone scams in Cyprus - This is how their victims are deceived

The Police recommends special attention to the public

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The Police recommends special attention to the public, for protection from fraudulent telephone calls from foreign countries and possibly aimed at withdrawing money from citizens who receive the telephone calls.

According to some reports made to the Police, in the last period of time, citizens have received unanswered phone calls from unknown telephone numbers of countries abroad.

The purpose of similar phone calls from foreign countries in the past, as it turned out, was to force the citizens who received the calls, to call the suspicious telephone numbers, resulting in over-indebtedness of their telephone accounts and the perpetrators to seize them. money for phone charges.

It is not excluded that telephone calls from foreign countries that are made during this period, may be malicious in order to withdraw money. The Police recommends special attention to the public that receives phone calls from such unknown telephone numbers. In case citizens have already called the telephone numbers, after a missed call they received, they are encouraged to contact their telephone provider, to check the charge of their telephone bill and where a money withdrawal is found, to make a complaint to the Local Police Station. where they live