Telephone scams ☎️

A fun thing about working at home a lot is that I'm here when scammers phone. They always start with an automated voice telling you about scary sounding payments. The most recent one went like this.

Automated voice: "This is a call from Bank Security Department. We're calling about payments of [two large amounts]. They are suspicious because you haven't made payments like this. Press 1 to approve or 2 to cancel."

Me: [presses 2]

Person with foreign accent in a noisy call centre: "Hello, this is Visa. [blah blah scary big payments blah blah]. Would you like to approve these payments or cancel?"

Me: "Cancel, please."

Person: "You'll need to connect to the internet. Do you have a device that's connected to the internet?"

Me: "I have a lying cheating person on the telephone."

Person: "Apart from this telephone, do you have a device connected to the internet?"

Me (trying not to laugh): "I have a lying cheating person on the telephone."

Person: [pause, realises, hangs up]

=> See also: Lenny - how to have fun with cold callers

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