The article was created as part of a paid collaboration: Scammers are no longer just roving sellers, there are more and more websites and mobile apps that ask for your phone number. When you enter it and then confirm the received SMS, you will not receive a discount code or other bonuses, but you will sign up for hundreds to thousands of crowns, which will be deducted from your account or credit every week.
These cases are rapidly increasing and becoming more sophisticated, there are even cases where the mobile phone sent SMS confirmation without the user’s knowledge. Even those who are usually more vigilant run the risk of being robbed.
Applikace.cz decided to crack down on these thugs and expose them so that they can no longer harm and take money from people. That’s why he needs you, only in cooperation with you can he uncover more scumbags, warn others about their dishonest actions and eventually ban them.
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How to recognize a scoundrel?
This is a page or mobile application that:
1. It only requires a phone number, although it is not needed at all (for example, when it is possible to send the same thing by email, or when it is a service that is advertised as free, such as downloading an application).
2. The application/service pretends to be something other than what it really is and differs from the original description. A very common case is when an application pretends to be an ad blocker on the phone, but in fact it is access to the web portal of the game, etc.
3. It is not mentioned that you have to pay for SMS.
Source :Indian TV
