Overview

• Thousands of people in Mexico report short or missed calls since September 24 from numbers in the United States and Canada, including South Carolina, Ohio and West Vancouver.
• Authorities in Nuevo León state that the campaign is an employment-related scam and urge people not to answer or return unfamiliar international calls.
• One scheme follows the Wangiri pattern in which returning the call routes victims to premium-rate lines, generating unexpected charges on phone bills.
• Another variant uses recorded messages claiming a résumé fits an overseas job and then requests payments or sensitive banking data once the target moves to WhatsApp.
• Media outlets and security firms advise blocking and reporting suspicious numbers, verifying caller IDs online, enabling carrier call filters and never sharing passwords, codes or payment details.