There's another thread with a user with the same thing happening on his phone. Someone is data mining.

There are similar scams in France, people don't understand very well Bitcoin but they know it is a thing. Thus scam compagnies benefit from the ignorance of the people, especially seniors who have funds to invest.

Be carefull to answer those phone calls they will know your private life your, profile information and ofcourse they detect that you have your btc wallet or several crypto wallets. i suggest to change your phone number right away. it may harm your wallet addresess that's leads you to Rekt.

The company most likely bought a database of crypto-related contacts.

Social engineers typically data mine this, well, data by decoupling websites that are designed to give you something for free. This is why I don’t participate in airdrops that require a lot of information, as I know that my data will uncoubtedly end up for sale on the black market.

Other methods of data mining include sites that require registration, such as faucets, and I think the biggest culprits are sites that are designed to “give something away” for “free”. Like raffles where you have to enter your information to be eligible.

My best advice to people that want to sign up on these sites? First of all, avoid sites that require you to enter your mobile number. Once you’re on a list like that, you’re screwed. Secondly, create a fake email address or one that is specifically used as a “throwaway”, if you will, that you can use to sign up on these sites.

It's indeed not likely that an exchange leaks your phone number but you still have to be aware of where you enter it. Especially if you use it for services like 2fa, because recently I see a lot of cases where someone calls the victims's phone provider pretending to be him, to get access to exchanges or something of that sort.

I guess so. I'm not a huge fan of using a phone number for authentication though so probably why I forgot that even existed. Even if I was to enter a phone number on an exchange it would likely be a phone just for that purpose.

There's better alternatives out there which were recently discussed over in the the serious discussion section.

That sucks. They should probably think about changing that, as they'll likely be losing out on sales just because they require a phone number. Especially, relevant in the Bitcoin community as you know how paranoid we all are...

A lot of scammer right now not only from phone even social media they always try to scam your money, some are saying double your bitcoin in 24 hours. If you really want to buy bitcoin better to on exchange rather than buy to stranger people.

Uh, I don't think simply answering a phone call will automatically allow the caller to steal your personal information and even your cryptocurrency wallets 🤔; unless you yourself voluntarily give it to them.

We should never give out our information to anyone more so to these random people who are selling bitcoins through phone call. Don't get lured with their promises of high profit if you invest in them. If someone tries to do this to anyone here, I think it is best to post the contact numbers of these scammers to serve as caution for everyone.

Its not possible but Its not possible If you sign up to a third party site, then it could be such.I signed up on an exchange web site where the phone came from.If you do this, go to the website and delete the number.