Cyber scammers are using “forwarding fraud” to divert calls and SMS messages from victims’ phones by tricking them into dialing USSD codes. Forwarded OTPs enable theft from bank and UPI accounts. Police urge caution, checking call forwarding, and reporting suspicious activity

Hyderabad: Cyber scammers keep finding new modus operandi to con people of their hard-earned money and gain illegal finances.

In the latest the cyber fraudsters are resorting to ‘forwarding frauds’ to illegally gain access to the phone calls and text messages of people and dupe them.

According to the police, in these scams, the mobile phone users are tricked into dialling Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) codes, also known as quick codes, to activate call forwarding. “Online criminals forward or diver

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