[Nolug] social engineering attack

I was just the target of a social engineering attack. Someone claiming to work
for some collection agency in Florida called me a bit ago, claiming to be
reopening a collection action against me. I in fact did have a charge-off in
the past from some large credit card company, but the guy got 4 details wrong
about my account:

1. His dates were wrong.
2. The payment schedules he quoted were incorrect.
3. His residence information was out of sync with where I actually lived while
I had the card.
4. He only knew the last 4 digits of my SSN, and pretended to know all of it.

Oh, and he was quite abusive and accusatory towards me. He even demanded that
I be nice to him, since a hurricane was bearing down on him, and I ought to
feel sorry for him.

The above, coupled with the fact that I have received no correspondence from
the lender in X years (the charge-off has even expired from my credit
history), leads me to believe that I was the target of a scam.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
 --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
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