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<\/a>According to MyBroadband<\/a> Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C have seen an increase in Wangiri phone fraud in South Africa.\u00a0South African mobile subscribers recently reported that they are receiving an increasing volume of missed calls from\u00a0unknown international numbers<\/strong><\/a>. Calls originate from across Africa and Europe, including Guinea, France, and Belgium.<\/p>\nWangiri is a form of phone fraud\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>which originated in Japan.\u00a0Wangiri<\/a> translates to “one (ring) and cut”. The racketeers hire a premium rate number from a telecom service provider and call random phone numbers via an auto dialer\u00a0function, letting it ring once and then disconnecting the call.\u00a0An\u00a0automatic dialer\u00a0(auto dialer) is an electronic device or software that automatically dials\u00a0telephone numbers.\u00a0Once the call has been answered, the auto dialler either plays a recorded message or connects the call to a live person. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n A missed call shows on the victim\u2019s phone and he returns the call since he believes the call was intended for him. Subsequently, he ends up paying an exorbitant amount\u00a0which goes into the account of the scammers.<\/p>\n Both CellC and MTN have sent their customers a warning not to return any missed calls. Do not call back a number you do not recognise.<\/strong> If it is a legitimate call, the caller will call you back or leave a voicemail.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wangiri is just one example of phone fraud. Read more on other variations on Wikipedia.<\/a><\/p>\n [SOURCES:\u00a0https:\/\/readstudyshare.wordpress.com<\/a>; www.wikipedia.com]<\/a><\/p>\n [:af]<\/p>\n Wangiri is \u0149 tipe foonbedrog\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>wat aanvanklik in Japan ontstaan het.\u00a0Wangiri<\/a>\u00a0kan vertaal word as “one (ring) and cut”. Die misdadigers\u00a0huur \u0149\u00a0premium-tarief nommer van `n telekommunikasie diensverskaffer \u00a0en skakel lukrake nommers deur middel van \u0149 outomatiese skakelaar. Die telefoon lui slegs een keer en daarna word die telefoniese verbinding verbreek.<\/p>\n \u0149 Outomatiese skakelaar is \u0149 elektroniese toestel of programmatuur wat outomaties telefoonnommers skakel. Sodra die oproep beantwoord word, sal die outo-skakelaar normaalweg \u0149 opgeneemde boodskap speel of jou verbind aan \u0149 persoon.\u00a0(Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u0149 Verbeurde oproep vertoon op die slagoffer se foon en hy skakel terug aangesien hy dink dat dit vir hom bedoel was. Gevolglik betaal hy `n buitensporige bedrag wat reguit in die misdadigers se rekeninge inbetaal word.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beide CellC en MTN het hulle kli\u00ebnte versoek om nie enige verbeurde oproepe te beantwoord nie. Moenie \u0149 nommer terugbel wat jy nie herken nie. Indien dit \u0149 regte oproep is, sal die persoon jou terugbel of \u0149\u00a0stempos los.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wangiri is slegs een voorbeeld van foonbedrog. Lees meer oor die ander variasies op\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [BRONNE:\u00a0https:\/\/readstudyshare.wordpress.com<\/a>; www.wikipedia.com]<\/a><\/p>\n [:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [:en] According to MyBroadband Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C have seen an increase in Wangiri phone fraud in South Africa.\u00a0South African mobile subscribers recently reported that they are receiving an increasing volume of missed calls from\u00a0unknown international numbers. Calls originate from across Africa and Europe, including Guinea, France, and Belgium. Wangiri is a form of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1103,29187],"tags":[54485],"class_list":["post-12305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-security-2","tag-wangiri"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 04:59:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12305"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Volgens MyBroadband<\/a>\u00a0het Vodacom, MTN, en Cell C \u0149 toename in Wangiri foonbedrog in Suid-Afrika opgemerk.\u00a0Suid-Afrikaanse selfoongebruikers het ook berig dat hulle toenemend meer verbeurde oproepe van onbekende internasionale nommers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>ontvang. Oproepe kom van regoor Afrika en Europa, onder andere Guinee, Frankryk en Belgi\u00eb.<\/p>\n