they call, pick up and hang up

In recent years there has been a proliferation scam that is so common telephonefor example, through social networks or the Internet. And thousands of people have been affected by some of these scams, which are becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect.

There are some calls that most of us Spaniards probably receive every day. Your phone rings, you pick up, a few seconds pass, and the number hangs up. Is there an explanation for this?

Considering this action our answers are varied: We can call back thinking they need something important, we can look up the phone on the internet and make sure it’s a spam call, or we can leave the call invisible and block the number.

This method the scam is called “vangiri”, comes from Japanese and means “ring and cut”. There are various reasons why these ghost calls occur. The first of them is the most dangerous, namely: Calling back to this strange number brings money to the scammer.

The second reason is that these will be automated calls from a customer service call center or telemarketing. When the system detects that you have picked up the phone, it tries to assign you to an operator, which may take a few seconds. When are the calls they hang themselves This is because the system was probably unable to assign you any available operators.

If you’re wondering how to avoid spam calls, there are several ways to do it. Some phones already have a list of numbers marked as spam that will notify you even before you pick it up. For your part, you can go to mobile registration and put them on your blacklist to avoid calls from these numbers.

And this is effective to a certain extent. There are applications that allow you to avoid them, but in the end What will save you is Robinson’s list. with which you will not receive a single spam call again.