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Scam in absentia
Aug. 3rd, 2010 09:27 am"... expires shortly. So please consider this your final notice. Please press one now on your phone to speak with a live operator and lower your interest rate. Or press two to discontinue further notices. Thank you and have a great day."
When I came to work this morning, I had four of those on my voice mail. Obviously their script is set to start spewing its message the moment the phone stops ringing, whether a real person actually answers or not. It was obviously a scam call of some kind, so while I waited for some data archiving to finish running, I plugged what I had into Google to see if anyone had logged this particular one. It did not take much searching for me to figure out that this is the "Heather at Accounting Services" scam.
"Hello. This is Heather at account services. And we're calling in reference to your current credit card account. There's no problems currently with your account. It is urgent however that you contact us concerning your eligibility for lowering your interest rate. To as little as six point nine percent. Your eligibility expires shortly. So please consider this your final notice. Please press one now on your phone to speak with a live operator and lower your interest rate. Or press two to discontinue further notices. Thank you and have a great day."
Part of me feels insulted that they think that I am stupid enough to fall for a scam like this. Another part of me is appalled that a lot of people do.
When I came to work this morning, I had four of those on my voice mail. Obviously their script is set to start spewing its message the moment the phone stops ringing, whether a real person actually answers or not. It was obviously a scam call of some kind, so while I waited for some data archiving to finish running, I plugged what I had into Google to see if anyone had logged this particular one. It did not take much searching for me to figure out that this is the "Heather at Accounting Services" scam.
"Hello. This is Heather at account services. And we're calling in reference to your current credit card account. There's no problems currently with your account. It is urgent however that you contact us concerning your eligibility for lowering your interest rate. To as little as six point nine percent. Your eligibility expires shortly. So please consider this your final notice. Please press one now on your phone to speak with a live operator and lower your interest rate. Or press two to discontinue further notices. Thank you and have a great day."
Part of me feels insulted that they think that I am stupid enough to fall for a scam like this. Another part of me is appalled that a lot of people do.
