Are you tired of your phone getting calls, at any time of day, from unknown numbers? Well, join the club.

The fact is that for all the laws to limit spam calls, there does not seem to be any diminishing in the number of such calls that we get bombarded with.

The Gazette number, which is in plain sight on Internet, obviously, gets dozens of these calls every week, from numbers that look basically the same but differ in the last three digits, for example.

Ours is a business and thos calls might be from prospective clients who want to advertise, but I don’t answer them; I block them if have no doubt that they’re spam. If somebody wants to get hold of us, there is our email address available online too, or they can just send a whatsapp message.

So, what do these spam callers want? Any personal data that they can glean, or in some cases, they phone letting it ring just once or twice. The unwary will call them back to see who it was, but the trouble is that it is one of those a high-cost, premium prefix lines and they will keep you on the line as long as they can.

Never phone back, if you don’t recognise the number.

So let’s take a look at the types of spam calls:

Premium Prefixes: In Spain, avoid interacting with 803, 806, and 807 numbers, as they incur high charges.

Scam Tactics: Fraudsters use automated systems to pitch fake health insurance, fake contests, and bogus consumer protection offers.

The Blacklist: Ten specific numbers from Germany and the Netherlands have been flagged as active scams so if you get a call from German or Dutch number and you don’t know anybody living in those countries, don’t answer it. The following is a list of those numbers:

01573 978 1457 Germany: deception related to health insurance companies
0163 725 6838 Germany: fake contests hiding financial traps (is there a digit missing?)
01525 643 0870 Germany: a line dedicated to scamming through unrealistic contests
01522 357 6540 Germany: fictitious giveaways designed to generate surprise costs
01525 670 4456 Germany: frauds related to electricity contract sign-ups
31 6 589 59518 Netherlands: new scam of fake consumer protection (is there a digit missing?)
31 6 5711 3998 Netherland: fraud using consumer protection as an excuse
31 6 5881 8175 Netherlands: deceptions under false promises of consumer defense
31 6 2080 4727 Netherlands: scams focused on alleged data protection

(News: Spain)

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