Message from the operator.
Mobile operators routinely sends its customers information and advertising SMS-messages. In these letters as the sender usually indicates a company name or short number. Subscribers trusting the operator did not hesitate to call the proposed number to listen to information about the service to get them interested, go to wap-link to download the free ringtone or send messages to the service control to the specified short number. Fraudsters have taken advantage of sending SMS from any name, send a similar message to the number for the operator, replacing the short numbers, links, telephone numbers and number combinations to manage services on their own, which are paid for. Taking advantage of such fraudulent services, subscriber detects the disappearance of a large sum of money from the account of his cell.
Interceptor strangers SMS-messages.
Often on the Internet you can find sites that offer access to the SMS-correspondence "second half". User can enter a phone number for the interception of communications, sees on the screen gradually increasing scale load the required data. Once all the information allegedly loaded, there is a button "Read messages", when clicked, offered to send an SMS to a specified number to gain access to the correspondence. User, confident that his correspondence "second half" is already on the site, send a message. After that, with the sender's account debited funds, but access to the message to another person and not provided.
Erroneous payments.
The subscriber receives an SMS-message containing notification of the completion of its account with the service "Mobile Transfer". A few minutes later receives a call from the fraudster, who says he made a mistake in the phone number when transferring funds and requests to return the money in the same way. Make a transfer the required amount to the number fraudster party discovers that any charges on his account was not made, and he sent a deceiver own money.