7 Dec, 2017 @ 14:43
1 min read

WARNING: ‘Missed call’ phone scam sweeping across Malaga and Spain

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GUARDIA Civil are warning mobile phone users of the ‘missed call scam’ affecting Andalucia and Spain. 

The scam sees victims receive one-dial calls from Albania, Ghana, Ivory Coast or Nigeria.

When they see the missed call and attempt to ring back, a high surcharge is added to their account which the scammers skim from.

 

Authorities are warning phone users to avoid prefixes 335, 225, 223 and 234.

Guardia Civil warned the scam is occuring more and more frequently, saying: “The scam of the missed call returns to the charge, do not return the call to those prefixes (unless it is from someone you know, of course).”

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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