"Provincial Center for Disease Control" called you? Be wary of phone scams starting with 172!

mobile phone fraud!

▓ Jia Yueqiong

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This morning, I received a call from a mobile phone number beginning with 172. The other party is a woman, speaks Mandarin with a Cantonese accent, and claims to be from the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Is it the owner?" Then, I reported my mobile number and name smoothly.

Next, I sternly said that I had sent a text message on my mobile phone that hindered the prevention of the epidemic, and asked me to go to the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention for investigation. My first reaction at the time was that I met a liar!

I said, "How did you know my message? What text message did I send? You are a liar!"

The other party's tone was tougher: "You know the content of your message, otherwise how do we know your situation? Tell you, if you don’t have the CDC to accept the treatment within two hours, you will block your mobile phone number! And tell you the address of the CDC."

Oh, it’s amazing, it’s crazy! I couldn't listen anymore and the call was interrupted.

This call made me angry and disturbed me. Worried about network security, worried that scammers will really have the ability to block my mobile phone number, worried that scammers will harass more people, and someone may follow the scammer’s guidance and walk toward disaster step by step.

So, I called 110 to the police and explained what happened. The one who answered the phone was a young male police officer who asked for my name, phone number and address, and comforted him, "Send someone to verify the situation immediately, don’t worry." Soon, a female police officer from Daguang Road Police Station called me and asked me to call 114. Check the phone number of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, whether there is such a mobile phone number registration. 114 Reply: The numbers registered by the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention are all landline numbers. I fed back the results of the inquiry to the police station, and the female police officer comforted me again. It seems that scammers are unable to block cell phone numbers.

At this time, my husband went out to do errands and came home. I told him what happened. He said, "You don't know. Mobile phones starting with 172 are fraudulent calls. Don't answer them!" A Baidu query showed

: "There is no If you receive a call starting with 172, if you receive a call that shows the number segment 172, it seems to be a fraudulent or harassing call that tampered with the number display by abnormal means."

A reminder for everyone: Don't answer cell phone calls starting with 172!