wangiri

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ワン切(ぎ)り (wangiri).

Noun

wangiri

  1. 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

Romanization

wangiri

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ワンぎり

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ワン切(ぎ)り (wangiri).

Noun

wangiri m (plural wangiris)

  1. 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)‎:
      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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