The Cyber Crime Police Station of Pimpri Chinchwad Commissionerate has issued an advisory warning people about call forwarding frauds. In these scams, the mobile phone users are manipulated into dialling Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) codes also known as quick codes to activate call forwarding, allowing fraudsters to intercept messages and calls, leading to financial and privacy breaches.

What are call forwarding scams?

The advisory was issued by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Dr Shivaji Pawar on the backdrop of several call forwarding scams being reported across the country and also in Maharashtra. The advisory noted that call forwarding scams are a category of cyber frauds where online criminals forward or divert a citizen’s mobile phone calls or SMSs to their ow

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