Making calls with Siri or Google could lead you to be scammed

If you have ever used Siri or Google to call a company, you could be the victim of a new scam.

Phone calls with voice assistants could open the door to crooks, who have found a new smart way to exploit our growing dependence on Siri and Google. This is according to the Better Business Bureau, which issued a warning about the program.

Here's how it goes, according to the BBB: you have to call a company, like an airline, but you do not know which number to call. So, you do what many of us do and ask Google or Siri to call [business name]"for you.

But instead of calling your bank or airline, the wizard calls a scammer posing as someone from the company, who will try to fool you by sending him some money. 39; money.

The schema itself is actually quite simple. Fraudsters buy search ads containing fake "company" phone numbers and pay to highlight them in search results. If you see the ads in your own search results, you can easily identify it as a scam. But assistants are not necessarily good at making these distinctions and often give preference to results that rank higher in research.

So when you ask your assistant to make a call, he simply dials one of the best results and inadvertently connects you to a fraudster.

The best way to avoid this is to check the entire phone number before placing a call and dial only numbers from official sources, such as a company's website. If you often need to call a company, you may want to save the number to your phone so you can always ask Siri or Google to dial it for you.

And if a phone call does not seem to be correct, you can always hang up and try again. Maybe you do not ask Siri