Experts explained how to avoid problems when receiving suspicious text messages and calls.
FACCT specialists shared their advice on their Telegram channel.
If you receive a suspicious call, you need to end it as quickly as possible.
If the caller has shared some frightening information, it is important to maintain control over your emotions.
In this case, you should also end the conversation and contact the organization on whose behalf the call was made and clarify the information that caused concern.
You can call the hotline or visit the office in person. It is important to clarify everything yourself and as accurately as possible.
SMS from suspicious numbers and users should also be carefully examined.
Very often, attackers send a link to a fake website or a file that installs a malicious program.
It is extremely dangerous to follow such links or download such files to your device.
Even if the message is supposedly from the department. You will have to clarify the information yourself, otherwise you can very easily fall for the scammers' hook.
This or that information, for example, about a state program or promotions, can be checked on the Internet or by calling the relevant department, company, or organization.
