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Hey, /adv/.
Yesterday I received and missed a call by an unknown number. Being ignorant, I made a big mistake and decided to call back. It was not an automated tape or a bot that answered. Instead, the person who answered the phone seemed to reply in another language which I couldn't make out. I hung up about 5 to 10 seconds after realizing what I've just done. I suspect there is a high possibility that the call came from scammers from a third or second world country, possibly Guinea.
Now I'm terrified as fuck of getting more calls, my number and possibly dox getting sold, getting expensive invoices and demand notes, getting signed up for contracts I didn't legally sign, etc.
I now just read some articles and they basically said that it's scam indeed and that I should send in formulas to my state's Federal Network Agency and report the offense to the police. I still have the number and can show it to relevant people.
What can and should I do now?
What may happen in the following months?
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you're worried about what now?
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>>18272678
I'm mainly worried about receiving false contracts and getting invoices from debt collection agencies.
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Just two hours ago another number in the same range called me again.
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>>18272852
wow they know your number
what are they gonna do, cite you as their emergency contact?
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Honestly OP, nothing will happen. It does not work like this, and these articles you read online are made because they get tons of views from people like you.
Just ignore foriegn or private calls.
I feel your pain through. I have a similar paranoia problem. I have no idea what to do when I get in states like you are now.
Hopefully you can relax, as from someone looking from the outside, you have absolutly nothing to fear.
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Use Truecaller and block spam preemptively.
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>>18272682
>>18272852
Literally what information do you think they gained from you calling them? They already had your number, and therefore anything that's attached to that, like your name and rough geographical location.
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>>18273088
>Just ignore foriegn or private calls.
I've learned my lesson, the hard way but at least I know not to be too curious now. I'm blocking the numbers now and I may change my mobile phone number soon.
If, and I really mean "if", there will be letters from certain debt collecting agencies, I will respond with templated sample letters. Realistically, I think the worst thing that will happen now is a higher phone bill but that's not really a problem.
>I feel your pain through. I have a similar paranoia problem. I have no idea what to do when I get in states like you are now.
This happens to me fairly often too, I'd get paranoid about random things and then I'm questioning everything. It feels bad. And then I'm unable to think of and do anything else.
>Hopefully you can relax, as from someone looking from the outside, you have absolutly nothing to fear.
Thank you, I appreciate your kind words, I feel much better now after thinking about the whole situation over and over again and my relatives somehow calmed me down too.
>>18273130
Maybe they were flooding calls through randomly generated numbers, to fill a certain quota; the original number has been reported over 50 times in my country already.
I think the only thing I did by now was confirming that my number exists.
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