Missed Call Fraud: An advisory has been issued by the telecom company Reliance Jio. It has been told that people are getting missed calls from international numbers on their numbers. As soon as they call back on these, they are being scammed.

For the last few days, news of various types of scams are being seen frequently. Fraud is being carried out by people in different ways. Now one more method has been added to this. Fraudsters are scamming people by giving missed calls.

In this scam, you are given a missed call by the fraudsters. And as soon as you call back on this number. You are cheated. Actually, scammers call you from international numbers for so many seconds. In which you are not able to pick it up.

Recently an advisory has been issued by the telecom company Reliance Jio regarding this. Which this scam has been named Premium Rate Services Camp. In this, cyber criminals first make missed calls from international numbers.

After getting a missed call from an international number, when anyone calls these numbers again, then he has to pay a very high charge for this. Therefore, there is a need to especially avoid this scam. Let us tell you. How fraud happens in premium rate service scam.

Premium rate service is actually a service that telecom companies provide to some special numbers. After calling on which users have to pay more money. In this, some part of the call charge goes to the SIM operator company and the other part goes to the call receiver's account.

Suppose you are using a postpaid number. And you get a call from an international number. You call back on it. So in such a situation you may have to pay a charge of Rs 100 for 1 minute. However, you will not know at that time. But when the bill comes, then you will know about that scam.

If you get any such call from an international number. So you don't have to call back on that number. Let us tell you that every country has a country code. For India it is +91, for Pakistan it is +92. If you get a missed call from an international number, then you must complain about it to the cyber crime department.

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