Spain's Order TDF/149/2025: Combatting Vishing and Smishing

This podcast details the growing threats of phone and text scams, known as vishing and smishing, respectively, and how scammers use social engineering to trick victims. It focuses on Spain's Order TDF/149/2025, a regulation aimed at blocking fraudulent numbers and registering aliases for messages, as well as banning the use of mobile numbers for commercial calls.In addition, the source offers practical recommendations to protect against these scams, including skepticism of suspicious messages and verifying the identity of senders, as well as the importance of cybersecurity culture. It emphasizes the need to verify the authenticity of communications and not to trust first interactions, even when the message appears to come from a known source.Finally, the source stresses that criminals are very creative and it is important to apply common sense.

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