NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Thursday advised people not to dial *401# followed by some unknown mobile number as it will activate call forwarding.
Subsequently, this will allow fraudsters to receive incoming calls, which can be used for fraud. “DoT has taken a pro-active drive to prevent malicious incoming calls and safeguarding cyber crimes and frauds. The Department has advised citizens to beware of receiving malicious incoming calls asking them to dial *401# followed by some unknown mobile number. This activates unconditional call forwarding received on mobile of citizen to the unknown mobile number,” said DoT, in a press note.
The DoT, explaining the modus operandi, said the fraudster calls the telecom subscriber and pretends to be a customer service representative or technical support staff from their telecom service provider.