Voice phishing scams involve fraudulent phone calls where criminals impersonate reputable institutions to trick victims into disclosing personal information. The scammer uses a sense of urgency or claims of an emergency to elicit sensitive details from the victim. Faisal Abidi recommends hanging up on unsolicited calls requesting information and instead looking up official numbers to verify the caller's identity before providing any personal details. Do not pay fees for phone-based prizes or rewards, and do not send money or sensitive information in response to unsolicited calls. Caller ID cannot be trusted as phone numbers and identities can be impersonated.

1. Voice Phishing Scams
Faisal Abidi’s suggestions to avoid voice phishing fraud

2. Table Of Contents
● What are voice
phishing scams?
● How does voice
phishing scams work?
● Faisal Abidi’s
suggestions to avoid
voice phishing frauds

3. What are voice phishing scams?

4. ● The use of fraudulent phone calls to dodge people into giving money or
disclosing personal information is voice phishing. It's a new name for an
old issue: phone scams. Phishing frequently involves a criminal
impersonating a reputable institution, business, or government agency.
● Voice phishing implies that a fraudster is dangling a hook or a lure in
order to trick unsuspecting victims into disclosing usernames,
passwords, or credit card information or downloading malware onto
their devices.
● Smishing, which uses fraudulent text messaging, and pharming, which is
phishing without the email hook, have both entered the phishing lexicon.

5. How does voice phishing scams work?

6. ● The person who answers the phone uses a sense of urgency or the guise of an
emergency to ask you questions about your identity or personal details, and
then they ask for more information.
● Many of these websites feature branding from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) or other health and government
organizations.
● The catalyst does not always have to be a negative situation; sometimes, the
excitement of potentially winning money, gifts, or trips is enough.
Unfortunately, when it comes to vishing scams, everything is a hoax.
● The scammer really wants your personal information, financial account
information, medical information, or other sensitive information, and they
want you to give it to them over the phone right away before you realize it's a
scam.

7. Faisal Abidi’s suggestions on
how to avoid voice phishing
scams

8. ● If a caller claims to be from a business, you do business with, such as your
bank, and requests personal information, hang up and look up the phone
number for that business. Report any fraudulent phone calls you receive!
● Do not pay any fees for phone-in prizes or rewards.
● In response to unsolicited phone calls from unknown companies or
individuals, do not send money or provide personal information (such as
credit card numbers and expiration dates, bank account numbers, dates of
birth, or Social Security numbers).
● Don't rely on caller ID. Phone numbers and caller identities can both be
impersonated. There have been reports of forged phone numbers from
government offices, as well as other companies and institutions.

9. Special Thanks To,
Faisal Abidi