How to protect your phone from USSD scams that can silently take control of all your calls

A rising trend of USSD scams taking place across the country where scammers take control of a user’s call and messaging systems, the National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit under the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), observed.

Under this scam, fraudsters posing as delivery agents trick people into dialing a sequence of symbols on their phone to ‘verify online order details’ which actually enables them to direct all your calls and messages to their phones.