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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+1 I don’t usually answer calls from numbers I don’t recognize, but my DS was in the ICU so I took the call from “Fraud Prevention” at my bank in case it was the hospital. They had me check the number they were calling from, and it matched the number in the card. They were remarkably credible, and I was vulnerable because of DS in ICU. I don’t remember how long we spoke, but the caller eventually hung up when I insisted on calling my local bank to verify.

A real person at my bank branch walked me through the process of freezing/changing all of my accounts. I didn’t lose anything, but I believe the bank verified that my account has been breached or somehow accessed unexpectedly.

The caller was remarkably professional and very convincing. [/quote]

When I've had my CC fraud prevention call me, I always tell them, sorry but I need to hang up and call the number on my card to get thru to this department.  They never have an issue, as that is exactly what one should do.  The fraudulent people are able to make the call look like it's coming from your real bank/credit card company/etc.  So I never give any information on a call that I did not initiate
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