Azercell cellular operator turned to his warning subscribers.
The company’s report says that “some subscribers recently had to encounter cases of fraudulent offers for the sale of fake numbers on behalf of Azercell Telekom LLC. Cases were also noticed when scammers are associated with subscribers on behalf of our company, requiring personality certificates. , offering fake numbers and putting forward payment requirements. “
Azercell conducted on the basis of requests for inspection subscribers showed that neither the Azercell nor the official dealers of the company for the sale of numbers performed any operations to register the numbers sent by fraudsters in the named subscribers.
“Taking into account that the above undesirable situations have nothing to do with Azercell Telekom, it is recommended to contact law enforcement agencies to injured citizens. In addition, our company conducts educational measures, periodically sending SMS notifications to subscribers, as well as posting information on the official Azercell website and pages on social networks, ”the statement said.
Taking into account all of the above, Azercell urges its subscribers to follow the main security recommendations in order to prevent possible fraud when choosing and ordering a number: “Be careful when accepting calls from unfamiliar people who offer you to purchase a number or request confidential information; not Make payments on the basis of calls or SMS coming from unknown persons; do not report the information about the identity certificate to sources that you do not trust. “