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The decades old `Wangiri fraud’, in which conmen lure people using suggestive pictures to entice them to ring up premium numbers, has surfaced in a new format in the city.
In the past one week, dozens of Kochiites have been receiving missed calls from numbers beginning with +225 and +381, traced back to the Ivory Coast and Serbia, respectively, followed by a contact number on WhatsApp. The caller will disconnect after a single ring and hence the name Wangiri, which in Japanese means ‘one ring’ and ‘cut’. The contact is more of an invitation for phone sex, with messages that follow stating ‘Call me’ along with provocative pictures of women.
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