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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why no one has mentioned yet that the CIA doesn't even operate in the U.S. and financial crime is not even within their scope. Scammers, next time fake being FBI.[/quote]

Yes, this among other things in the story, were are easily Google-able. You wouldn't even have to hang up the phone to do that.

I don't know that I'd say I would never fall for any scam. Some can be pretty well-done. I had one call that was supposedly from the fraud prevention department at my bank. They were asking about suspicious charges. That's not out of the ordinary. It's happened before. And they had exactly the right script. Very efficient and businesslike. But it got weird when they texted me a two factor authentication code and then wanted me to read it to them. And I did, even after saying, "It says right here that Bank will never ask for this" and he replied that it was ok they just needed to make sure I was getting the messages. Then he told me I needed to enter a code on my phone to make sure I got the fraud prevention alerts as texts. That's when I said, yeah, I don't understand that. I'll go ahead and hang up and call back. I did and my bank said they hadn't called me and there were no fraudulent charges. So it was clearly a scam/hack type attempt. The good news is that I'm on pretty high alert now and realize that the whole professional and correct "script" was their method to put me at ease. And fraudulent charges are something the average consumer is happy to be alerted about and therefore is cooperative in resolving the issue.

I still don't think I'd give $50k in a shoebox to someone.[/quote]

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