Thousands of people are subjected to scammers trying to access their private information on a daily basis across the country.
From emails to calls and texts, fraudsters are active across all methods of communication at the moment and so warnings are issued on an almost daily basis in Ireland.
The Covid-19 pandemic left the door wide open for criminals to target people as working from home culture made accessing information easier.
However, some are wondering where these people and computers are getting their numbers and email addresses from.
Comreg has now revealed that the standard ways of hiding your number from marketers or public searches won’t protect you from these tech-savvy criminals.
“Scammers use software to call or text a range of numbers at the same time and then note which are answered,” they explained.
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“Answered numbers are recorded as genuine in-use numbers and may be sold on the internet to other cyber criminals.
“Therefore, making your number ex-directory or adding your number to the “do not call” register for direct marketing will not prevent scams.
“If you have fallen victim to a scam previously, you may be contacted by other scammers who claim to be able to help you to get your money back for a fee.”
What can I do to protect myself from being scammed?
Because of the speed at which these technologies…
