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The number starts with a +375 prefix therefore it is a number from Belarus which may leave you perplexed to understand who is calling a UK number from Belarus. The number has been reported numerous times by the public as a scam. We investigated how the number operates; it is an incoming call receiving number our first advice would be not to call the number back as you might be charged £15-£30 range to call them back depending on your tariff with the network provider.
Which country is +375443578357 located?
Belarus is in Eastern Europe, its legal name is the Republic of Belarus with a border with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. Being the 13th largest population in Europe Belarus has 9.2 million population, many legitimate companies are operating internationally in Belarus but the number we are investigating is known as the Golden Lottery Scam by thousands of reports, it is also classified as disturbing since calling times are not ordinary.
They are claimed to be impersonating a customer service department of a golden lottery and the caller is stated to be the winner of extreme amounts like 20 million Euros on the call, it is very suspicious since the caller number is not a UK number and we do not have a golden lottery in the UK, our only legitimate lottery is National Lottery in the UK and even if you win the lottery nobody would receive a call from a prefix of +375 as the region of the number is outside the UK.
The other interesting point is the caller has an accent not associated with or stated to be a Russian accent by the reporters, may call receivers state that the caller has an Asian accent rather than an Eastern European accent. If something feels too good to be true, it very likely is hence we kindly ask all call receivers from such numbers to be extra careful.
What to do when you receive a call from +375443578357?
There are various lottery scams online and somehow these scammers are also able to contact thousands of people using phone numbers, this has substantially increased in recent years, any lottery that is being properly operated in the UK would be registered to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), you can check the organiser of the lottery in FCA website and make a complaint if you feel suspicious about a lottery to be scam for further investigation. Bogus lotteries and mainly false Facebook lottery scams are also a few to recognise. If a caller states that you won the lottery, in most cases it would relate to a bogus lottery scam and the number +375443578357 is not a safe number to answer and we would advise the recipient of the calls to block them.
Louis Ortiz
2 Years AgoThey kept calling me for many days, but I did not attend any of their calls because I usually do not attend unfamiliar numbers that do not leave any voicemail. Surely, scam callers.