Govt warns users against dialling ‘*401#’ followed by unknown mobile number

The Department of Telecom on Thursday issued an advisory to users warning against malicious calls that ask them to dial ‘*401#’ followed by an unknown mobile number.

In case a user dials ‘*401#’ followed by an unknown number, then it leads to activation of unconditional call forwarding received on the mobile of the user to the unknown mobile number.

“The Department has advised citizens to beware of receiving malicious incoming calls asking them to dial *401# followed by some unknown mobile number.