Menu
Inshorts
For the best experience use inshorts app on your smartphone
inshortsinshorts
Cybercrime unit warns of call-forwarding scam, cautions against numbers starting with 21, 61
short by Dharini Mudgal / on Tuesday, 30 December, 2025
National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit warned about USSD call forwarding scam being used to take over victim's bank accounts. Posing as delivery agents, scammers ask victims to dial USSD codes starting with 21, 61 or 67, followed by a mobile number. This activates call forwarding and diverts OTP calls to them. Users have been advised not to dial such codes.
read more at Times Now