What should I do if I accidentally answer a call from overseas?

It’s okay. This is a harassing call. Just install a mobile phone manager. Don’t answer the phone, let alone call it again.

This kind of harassing calls are all virtual numbers, and the addresses displayed are not real. Criminals access individual international operator networks through servers or switches deployed overseas to make harassing calls.

These overseas harassing calls constantly change numbers, and often an international number is called only once. The harassment characteristics of a single number are not obvious, and it is difficult to block them through traditional methods such as marking the numbers one by one or blacklisting them.

China Mobile customer service staff suggested

Mobile users can dial 10086 to report harassment calls. "We can send users a text message link, and users click the link to enter the mobile report page and copy and paste the harassment number." Just go up and copy a few numbers."

The customer service staff said that although the numbers and addresses displayed by the online harassment calls vary widely, the IP addresses are all the same. "We block one IP address. You can intercept many harassing calls." After reporting, users can also scan the QR code to follow the China Mobile 10086 official account to track the processing status of the reported information in real time. Figures show that so far, China Mobile has received 37,031 reports of harassment calls in 2020.