wangiri
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese ワン切り (wangiri).
Noun
[edit]wangiri
- A type of phone call scam in which the caller dials a random number and immediately hangs up in the hopes that the recipient will call back.
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]wangiri
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese ワン切り (wangiri).
Noun
[edit]wangiri m (plural wangiris)
- wangiri (phonecall scam)
- 2018 July, “Cómo funcionan las estafas de las llamadas de Lituania y por qué no hay que contestarlas”, in El Pais (Uruguay)[1]:
- Lo que hacen los estafadores de wangiri es simular que son una red telefónica de otro país, para que cualquier usuario que haga llamadas a ese "país" deba pagar un fee extra, bastante alto en general.
- What wangiri scammers do is pretend that they're a telephone network from another country, so that any user who calls that "country" must pay an extra fee, generally quite high.
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