Posted on 06/12/2020 9:08:30 AM PDT by finnsheep
Warning: two phone calls on two days saying thank you for being an Amazon customer. Confirm that you have ordered a phone for $700.99. If you have questions press 1 - - which obviously you should not.
Indian scammers...
I answer my phone by not saying a word and let the scammers sit there and wonder what’s going on. It wastes their time and saves somebody elses.
This pertains to any calls or emails that you get from ANYONE!
No matter who contacts you, whether they claim to be your bank, your insurance company, any retailer, or whatever, never ever trust that they are who they say they are. Tell them thank you and that you will handle it on your own and hang up. Do not let them try to convince you that your account is in any kind of danger. Just hang up.
Same with emails.
Never click on any links or open any attachments.
If they claim to be your bank, call your bank directly. Separately. Never trust anyone who calls you out of the blue.
I keep getting calls from some mortgage company wanting me to refinance my VA mortgage. My home has been paid off for years.................
Had one of the Indian scav calls the other day.....waited til they picked up and they asked if this was (Fill in blank)then I just started laughing like a lunatic in an insane asylum....he said hello a couple times clearly uncertain what this crazy laughter was about...but I just kept up th crazy laughter before he hung up.
I got a call the other day informing me that my utility company had made an error, and I was due a refund. Funny that they never mentioned my name, or the name of the utility company.
I was curious, so I stayed on the line. I ended up having a nice two-minute conversation with an Indian gentleman. But he eventually hung up on me. Maybe that’s because I was speaking Hungarian to him the whole time.
Watch kitboga on youtube or twitch to see him mess with these scammers.
At some point almost all of these scammers want you to run desktop sharing software. If you get fooled up to that point, STOP NOW!
It also causes the autodialers to hang up and move on to the next number. The ones that start a recording can be hung up upon, and the number blocked (though they use so many false numbers you can't get 'em all).
I got a strange message on my screen the other day.
“Some of your passwords may have been stolen. Click here to confirm your passwords”. No thanks!
I recently received a couple of e-mails, supposedly from Amazon, which said that someone had purchased something using my account. They wanted me to click on a confirmation to stop the transaction. Naturally, I would have to enter my ID and Password.
No thanks.
I contacted Amazon and they confirmed it was bogus and advised me not to open any attachments or provide any information.
I got an e-mail from “Amazon” telling me that my Prime account was about to expire. I checked my account (not through the e-mail’s link) and found I have several months yet. It looked pretty authentic without with obvious grammar or spelling errors.
Also, beware of the line “Can you hear me all right?” Your “yes” reply can be used against you.
You often have to say something to trigger the handoff to a human to waste their time. I usually say hello in Russian, Arabic, German, etc.
I also press whatever number needed to get a human. If everyone did that it would make their autodialer useless. Instead of them using the autodialer to filter down to the perhaps 5 scammable people out of a 1000 they call, that they have to at least provide human labor to several hundred dead ends per thousand. Even if I don’t have time or interest in talking I don’t want them to get the benefit of the autodailer/recording.
Someone I know had their email hacked recently. I got an email, from her address, asking if I would “do her a favor ... do you have an Amazon account?”
Evidently the scam is that they get you to purchase an Amazon gift card & then give them the claim code (or send it to them) - of course you are never reimbursed.
I would NEVER do this anyway, plus I noticed that the email for replying was similar, but not the same as the person’s email. Additionally, as if I need more reason to be suspicious, we are not ‘friends’ and I am the LAST person she would ask for a favor. The only reason my email address was in her address book was for some organizational business we had to transact some years ago.
Within a week, there was an email from the organization we both belong to, stating her email was hacked & to ignore/delete those scam messages.
I had the same thing happen yesterday. My old boss and I keep in contact and we were emailing back and forth yesterday. I received an email with the first part of the email matching his except for the domain. I got suspicious when he asked for money and checked the domain.
Look for more of these scammers from Hindia after Trump reduces the H1B visas to 0 until US unemployment again reaches 3.00%.
Look for more of these scammers from Hindia after Trump reduces the H1B visas to 0 until US unemployment again reaches 3.00%.
Noticed when call centers were pulled from India (Americans just can’t stomach that Indian accent) to Malaysia, the Philippines and back to the US). Indian companies turned their call centers into call scam centers.
Thats also why 99.9% of IT recruiters are Indian and calling into the US using VoIP technology. One way to shut it down is ban all international IT recruitment companies not actually operating from and located in the United States
My “land line“ rings about ten times a day. No one I know has that number. It is always silence, then the person on the other end says “hello” like I called them. I now have the line connected to a fax machine, and I chuckle when it picks up, hoping the shulb on the other end is getting an earful.
“Do not let them try to convince you that your account is in any kind of danger. Just hang up.”
Sometimes I like to mess with them. Try to get them to tell me where they are, or what their real name is.
They never do, but it aggravates them.
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