Table of contents:
- Who is 9862412138?
- How to block calls from 986 241 2138 and other nuisance numbers
- List of spam numbers identified by Tuexperto.com
Continuing with the usual series of articles on spam numbers, today it is the turn of 9862412138, a phone number that has been bringing up several dozen users since the beginning of this month. If we look at the origin of the prefix 986, the origin of the call takes us to the province of Pontevedra in Galicia. Is it a company, a spam number or a simple individual? We see it below.
Who is 9862412138?
“I have six missed calls from this number and I don't know who it is”, “I pick up the call and no one answers”, “When I pick up the call I hear a voice with a Romanian accent speaking very poor Spanish”… These are some examples of testimonies that several dozen users have reported on various internet forums. But who is really behind this call?
Currently the authorship of the call is unknown, although some users claim that the interlocutor pretends to belong to the official Microsoft technical service. The purpose of the call is nothing more than to get hold of the personal data of the possible victims through a program called Team Viewer with which you can obtain full control of the computer remotely.
Apparently, the operator urges you to install the aforementioned program, ensuring that the computer has a very dangerous virus. The Civil Guard and Microsoft have already confirmed that this type of practice is a fraud. We can therefore deduce that it is a full-blown scam.
How to block calls from 986 241 2138 and other nuisance numbers
The only protection measure that we can carry out against this type of practice is based on blocking this type of number. As it is not a commercial call, the only method that we can carry out is based on resorting to applications that help us to block calls.
Some customization layers have options to block calls.
In the case of Android we can find True Caller, while in iOS we can resort to Mr. Number. Once we have installed one of the two applications, we will only have to add the phone number in question to the black list and activate the spam call filter.
From now on, any call from the number 986 24 12 138 will be automatically blocked without receiving any notification of its receipt.
List of spam numbers identified by Tuexperto.com
