Careful About Phone Scams

Phone Scams: How to Be Careful?

Every day, scammers, and cybercriminals are coming up with new tricks to scam people. Therefore, avoiding mobile phone scams is a top priority for anyone present in the digital space. Since some scams are not easy to detect, taking precautions is a must. However, the PayBitoPro team has come up with tips to keep you safe from scams.

Phone Scams: What Are They?

One of the most important assets of individuals worldwide today is mobile phones. Moreover, this fact is well known by scammers and cybercriminals. Mobile phones contain all the private sensitive information and data that the scammers can misuse. Emails, banks, and other sensitive applications are linked to mobile phones.

Some of the common mobile phone scams are:

Mobile phone virus scams
Voice mail scams
One-ring scams
SMS phishing

How to Secure Your Mobile Phone From Scammers?

Every phone scam is unique. However, they often share similar goals and methods. Since new scams appear every day, it’s crucial to stay prepared. Here’s how you can detect phone scammers.

Threats or Urgent situations often enable people to act quickly without interrogating the situation. A reputable organization will always answer your questions, and allow you to verify if the claims are real.
Often scammers call and show empathy to donate to a social cause. Often there is no evidence of such cases. This often leads to scams.
A scammer from call centers often makes huge promises that are too good to be true. In such scams, the scammers call or announce sudden discounts, and prizes.

Here’s how you can avoid mobile phone scams.

While preparing yourself for such phone scams, it’s crucial to improve your security.

Always use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), especially when you are on public Wi-Fi.
It is crucial to create highly-secured passwords
Create lengthy PINS
Create unique passwords
Always use a call-blocking application
In case you spot a phishing number, do not answer and block it immediately
Use only official applications for opting services
Always use cybersecurity on your mobile devices.

PayBitoPro customer care executives never call you unless you request us at support@paybito.com.

If you find a phone number claiming to be for PayBitoPro support, it’s a phishing scam. Do not call it. Instead, please send us a support ticket with information about the scam.

Never share your account details, or password with anyone.

Be sure to also follow our guide for Securing Your Account.