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Instant reaction: Finnish call blocking solution reveals phone scammers' playbook
"This is likely to be scammers testing whether any call or number they've been using used in their scams still manages to get through. This confirms our view that scammers are using automation and robocalling. They try to bombard the customer from several different country numbers in quick succession", explains Elisa's Chief Information Security Officer, .
The majority of unwanted calls from abroad occur on weekdays during office hours, with weekends being quieter. There are also often signs of "campaigns": on some days, thousands of calls are made to Finland , while on other days, there are hardly any.
In recent days, the new solution has blocked over 800 unwanted foreign calls per day, on average, with the number rising rapidly as the user base expands. It will be interesting to see how long scammers continue trying to make calls to Finland.
"We will probably see something similar to what happened in 2021, when Elisa started blocking scam calls that were spoofing Finnish numbers. Scammers kept trying for a couple of weeks before realising the calls were no longer getting through. Finland became a bad target for scammers, and they shifted their operations to other countries", explains Mäkelä.
Blocking calls from foreign numbers is not something that has happened much in other countries, and scammers have rarely encountered it elsewhere. Finland is once again taking the lead internationally in blocking scam calls.
"Even if we can't completely eradicate scam calls, we can stop many people from losing money because they won't be accidentally answering scam calls", says Mäkelä.
Blocking foreign numbers is one of the features of Elisa's "Liittymäturva" subscriptions and is easy to enable in OmaElisa. The feature is ideal for young people, senior citizens and others who don't generally expect calls from abroad. Calls from Finnish numbers are not affected, so a call from a family member travelling abroad will connect normally if the caller is calling from a Finnish phone number.
Elisa Mediadesk, mediadesk@elisa.fi, tel. +358 50 305 1605
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