{"id":984489,"date":"2026-01-10T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984489"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:16:35","slug":"how-to-protect-your-phone-from-ussd-scams-that-can-silently-take-control-of-all-your-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/how-to-protect-your-phone-from-ussd-scams-that-can-silently-take-control-of-all-your-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your phone from USSD scams that can silently take control of all your calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rising trend of USSD scams taking place across the country where scammers take control of a user\u2019s call and messaging systems, the National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit under the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), observed. <\/p>\n<p>Under this scam, fraudsters posing as delivery agents trick people into dialing a sequence of symbols on their phone to \u2018verify online order details\u2019 which actually enables them to direct all your calls and messages to their phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rising trend of USSD scams taking place across the country where scammers take control of a user\u2019s 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 \u2018verify online order details\u2019 which actually enables them to direct all your calls and messages to their phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}