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Title: A nasty new telephone scam is sweeping across America
Source: [None]
URL Source: https://www.commdiginews.com/busine ... weeping-across-america-123758/
Published: Oct 18, 2019
Author: Bob Taylor
Post Date: 2019-10-18 06:27:49 by WWG1WWA
Keywords: phone, scam
Views: 1329
Comments: 16

CHARLOTTE, NC – Keeping up with the proliferation telephone scams these days is getting to be more challenging than dealing with robo-callers. The biggest difference is that you can hang up on the robo guy, mutter a few four letter (or longer) expletives and get on with your life. Not so if find yourself ensnared in a scam that takes considerable time, energy and money to resolve.

Speaking of scams, there’s a particularly nasty scam going around right now. This incredibly devious trick can fool even the most skeptical and alert of intended victims. Unless they’re very suspicious and very careful.

As recently reported by Lifehacker, the latest telephone scam scam uses your bank’s real phone number to encourage you to surrender your PIN.

Here’s how this latest telephone scam works: The scammers call your phone claiming to represent your bank. They explain to you that someone has attempted to use your bank credit card in some faraway or exotic location. When you tell them it wasn’t you who made the purchase, they helpfully “assist” you.

These magnanimous, big-hearted fake bankers first put you at ease by telling you they’ll take immediate action to block the bogus transaction.

Following that, their next step is asking for your member number.

For most people, this doesn’t raise an obvious red flag. Why? Because, unlike an account number or PIN, scammers can’t use your member number alone to rip you off.

“So if that’s true, what’s the big deal?” you ask.

Because what the con artist can do and will do is use your member number to reset your bank account password and trigger a verification code text that is then sent to your cellphone.

The next step in this devious telephone scam The callers tell you they’re sending a “verification PIN.” Then, they ask you to read it back to them. Because the text is a legitimate code sent from your actual bank, it’s easy to fall for this ruse. But you’re actually providing the scammers with the information they need to change your bank login details.

Then comes the final phase of the scam. Now the scammer asks for your PIN number. They claim they need it to block the number and deny the current and future “bogus” transactions. But their ultimate goal is to obtain that final piece of the puzzle they need to infiltrate your account.

Eternal vigilance is still a good idea You should always treat any incoming calls allegedly originating from your bank with the greatest of caution. In this case specifically, if the caller asks you to share your PIN over the phone, that’s a surefire indication you should hang up. If you suspect the call is legitimate, tell them you’ll call the bank back so you know you’re in contact with a number you can trust. A real bank employee won’t try to stop you.

It’s always wise to establish a personal relationship with at least one or two employees of your bank so you have someone you know who can help raise a red flag to the bank’s home office if it ever proves necessary.

Telephone scam attempts are frighteningly common today. Worse, the number is growing. Even worse, telephone scam criminals increasingly prefer to pinpoint vulnerable, older, retired Americans. They know that many of these innocent and often credulous people have some kind of retirement funds squirrelled away, which is precisely the treasure-trove a telephone scam ring is eager to target.

A real danger to older Americans Many of our older citizens are easily frightened by the threat of financial problems. Scammers know this group is all-too-ready to react to a clever telephone scam in just the way the scammers intend: by walking into their trap and providing all the information they ask for.

Unsurprisingly, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 535,000 complaints in 2018 alone. Almost invariably, the complaints involved imposter scams where the fraudster pretended to be someone the victim trusted.

Sixty-nine percent of fraud attempts in 2018 were made by phone, according to the FTC’s tally. Almost one in five people targeted by these imposter scams lost money.

The FTC’s advice if you find you’re a target of a telephone scam The FTC’s advice for avoiding such scams is simple. Never give out account or identity-related numbers to anyone over the phone. If you’re asked to confirm one of these numbers, don’t do it. It’s a trick.

Sadly the telephone scam con game world becomes increasingly more sophisticated each and every day. Just imagine. If scammers spent only half the time they use to dream up their elaborate cons by creating legitimate, innovative uses for modern technology, how much better off the whole world would be.

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#1. To: WWG1WWA (#0)

Track them down. No BS court. Go straight for public execution.

Tie them to a post in the town square. Pile up old tires around them, pour a few gallons of gasoline, throw a match on it.

Televise it nationally as a warning to all scammers.

Laugh while they scream !!!!

Stoner  posted on  2019-10-18   9:32:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Stoner (#1)

You've given this some thought. LOL

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-18   10:36:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tooconservative (#2)

" You've given this some thought. LOL "

Yeah, a bit.

I have not experienced this new scam, but I am sick of all of the endless robo calls, etc day after day, after day. I have tried everything, don't talk, push the # sign, cuss them out, called state AG, got on the no call list a zillion times, already have a unlisted number, talk to callers in a foreign language, when caller asks for me have told them I died, or was in jail, or moved to South America, told a couple they were calling CIA HQ, told another lady this was Coreleone HQ, and we would burn her house down, you name it, I have tried it.

Some have worked for a few days, then game is back on

I AM SICK OF THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stoner  posted on  2019-10-18   11:09:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Stoner (#3)

It is annoying when most of the calls you get are just spam callers.

You get the impression that many of them are just scouting for live numbers or to record whatever they can pick up in the background in your home.

I've almost gotten rid of these kinds of calls, used to get one almost every day.

I deprive them of any chance to gather info just by ringing my phone.

I mute any radio/TV/internet audio. I pick up the phone and wait 5 seconds or more before making a very quiet hello.

That is what has worked for me. I'm down to maybe one robocall per month now. It's almost always the credit card refinance people. Since I don't have a credit card, I always know it's just scammers.

I also don't like to give out my phone number at all. I think that helps. Fewer places from which my phone number can be obtained.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-18   12:20:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)

Yeah, I've tried all that. Besides the credit card calls, I get calls trying to sell me back braces, etc.

I got one that I had a lot of fun with. It was a guy selling cemetery lots. I talked like Jed Clampett, told him man I am glad you called. We just had a death in the family, and we needed to buy 16 spaces. Man, I could hear that guys head clinging like a cash register. He asked the name of the deceased, and I shined him on for awhile, finally told him Ol Blue, and that we need spaces for Daisy, Bullet, Ringo, Lucy, Spot, on & on. Before I could finish, phone went dead. Have not had any calls from them again. That was a lot of fun !!

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#6. To: Stoner (#5)

I once got a call during a family Christmas celebration from MADD. I thought it was annoying.

So I told them I was very interested and wanted to support DAMM. They acted puzzled. Then I told them I didn't want to donate to Mothers Against Drunk Drivers but that I was a bigtime supporter of DAMM (Drunks Against Mad Mothers). Then they were finally willing to hang up. My nieces overheard this and were a little shocked that their uncle would give these phone pests the business like that. Sure it was rude. But isn't it rude to have phone pests calling you all the time, like you got nothing better to do than let them waste your time with sales pitches because you answered the phone?

BTW, the one way to get on their calling lists permanently is if you ever donated to a charity or bought something from a phone sales pitch. That'll put you on their lists forever because they apparently believe that if you ever bought anything or donated to anything as the result of a phone pitch, they have a strong chance of getting you to do it again.

Responding to phone robocalls and sales pitches? Yeah, the punishment fits the crime. And the punishment is robocalls and phone pests calling you for the rest of your life.

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